Cyprus: A Magic Place That Feels Like Home.
I felt captured in a place where the people around me, were they to know the ways that I moved through life, would judge me.
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Ukraine, Tyranny and a Past the West Cannot Avoid.
Whatever will happen in Europe will affect us all in the West, not merely lighting up our amygdala with disturbing images.
I Must Leave This City Before I Leave My Own Heart.
I know that as an individual, I cannot remain much longer in a city where I see myself morphing into a dark, unfeeling creature.
Still Standing: NYC Skyline and Remembering 9/11.
Still standing like Rocky after all his fights -- battered, bruised, but all heart. Because underneath the steel and concrete, it’s a softy.
Prelapsarian Paradise: Nature Will Triumph.
In this age, we know that our interaction with nature can create harm, but that harm can be ameliorated with remedial action.
Escape by Sea: Shape of Salvation in Watercolor Tones.
I imagined people escaping by sea, from disease and geological cataclysm, and thought of what it must be like to have made it onto a boat.
Lines in the Sand: A Goddess Divided.
So close to the altar of Aphrodite Urania, a goddess cleansed of her Eastern sensuality by the Greek patriarchal lens, afraid of her energy.
Patterns That Weave Us Together During Holy Wars.
If we were to focus on the minutia to understand, which I often do, we might see more human-sized patterns in all the wreckage, the carnage.
Roiling Soil & Re-Turning: Honoring Lives Given & Taken.
Release more deeply into what’s truly 'The Matter' in these times. Matter is from Latin 'materia' (substance), and Mater, Mother. Soil.
Framed in Light: The Radical Identitarian Right.
The headlights illuminated a spiral of fiery brown, twisting dangerously around the interrogating beam, lacing it in a curving question. I wasn’t used to driving, and catching my own hair lit by the headlights of the car behind me filled me with sudden dread. The road was a coiling, dark ...