Keep a journal This way, you can bitch to your heart's content without unnecessarily burdening the poor saps that are stuck in isolation with you. If you are stuck in quarantine alone, journaling will help you keep track of what ails you without having to worry about whether or not you are loosing your mind … Continue reading Lessons from Quarantine – #1
Somersaults
Writhing curvature that contracts and expands unto itself. A heated intertwining. Conjoining converging and diverging. A prism of concentrated feeling pulsating energy. A heated space of pulsating energy a feeling of melting into oneself an exploding outward in thousands of tiny pieces. Broken but full. Complete but shattered. Dazed but satisfied.
The Road of Good Intentions
To hell with your good intentions. Well meaning, self serving acts that often serve to hinder the receivers of those well intentioned acts. It might really just be better if you just send a note. Just send a card with your well wishings. Don't try to impart on me your unwanted charity. Well intentioned gifts. … Continue reading The Road of Good Intentions
From the Melting Pot | Well This Jamaican…
Growing up American with Jamaican parentage (or Jamerican) has been quite the trip. My earliest memory of my "heritage difference" is of being in a middle school music class and being asked by a group of my peers to, "say something in Jamaican." Confused, I stared at them and tried to explain that "Jamaican" was … Continue reading From the Melting Pot | Well This Jamaican…
An Interview with – Paradise Rodriguez
In the daily hustle and bustle of things, we often get so caught up in labels and pass split second judgement about who a person is so that we might quickly define what their potential might be. In this way, we get caught up in binary understandings of who an individual is without truly taking … Continue reading An Interview with – Paradise Rodriguez
Cake
So much thought energy and feeling is put into one of the ends of a cycle. Either the beginning of the story was far better than it ended or something started off bad but was given a chance and ended up well. That last little piece of cake that is savored. The first bite of … Continue reading Cake
