a journey of transformation
“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.”
– Nikki Giovanni
I’ve been in a funny mood all day. Yes, times are strange, we’re in a pandemic, we’ve been home for months, and things will likely never be the same as they were prior to this. It’s unsettling. But today, in particular, I felt strange: I watched youtube videos of gospel music. I’m not religious. I…
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Several times a week I find myself sitting down to work on the things I decided were my priorities for the day and all of a sudden unable to sit still. I start seeing something that needs to be washed or organized or another project idea that comes up that I should tackle. It’s a…
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This is from a chapter in Pleasure Activism authored by someone who experienced childhood sexual abuse, and although that has never been my experience, the paragraphs at the end of the chapter deeply resonated with me. This was specific to the author’s timeline of arriving at college, this narrative could just as easily have been…
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It’s like the prayer says God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference… Change is inevitable; a necessary force that is usually, ultimately a positive one. But we’re so programmed to resist change; to get into a routine…
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like black butterflies 