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The Good Friendship Compass

I took a class last semester called "The Good Life" and for my final assignment I created a "Good Friendship Compass" which was supposed to create a path toward being a good friend according to the four spheres of activity, Dharma, Moksha, Artha, and Kama. Classical Indian philosophy might be a bit of a niche topic, but this has always been an unconventional blog. Enjoy.

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Fractured

I feel fractured/ something fundamental/ is broken inside of me./ My pieces aren’t ticking/ and tocking the way they should.

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For Lack of a Better Term

Grief is such a small word/ How can only five letters/ Encompass the vast sea/ Of emotions crashing/ The waves tearing me apart?

Feeling Good

Birds flying high, you know how I feel I have a very intense fear of heights. But the thing about having a fear of heights, is that having a fear of heights is not about the fear of being up high, it is about the fear of falling. It is the fear of having nothing to catch you. I have dreams of being in the body of a bird, of flying, and in those dreams I have no fear of falling because I will catch myself on my wings. It is the plummeting crash that I fear. The view from up high is amazing, the ...

Hope

It’s funny how life can surprise you. There are so many things that have happened in my life that I regret. Alongside them are things that I do not regret, though some people might think I should. And as I think about where I am going, what paths I am taking forward, I sometimes wonder […]

NaNoWriMo 2021: An Eleven Year Reflection

It is November and that means NaNoWriMo has come around once more. It has been eleven years since I participated in my first NaNo in 2010, and I like to think I have improved a great deal as a writer since that truly egregious novel that I wrote as a teenager and that hopefully never […]

All Hallows Eve

I am wishing everyone a blessed Samhain and a happy Halloween on this day. The following is one of my favorite poems, from Audre Lorde. You can listen to me read it in the 10th episode of Wandering Troupe Poetry Readings, my Patron-only poetry podcast which I have made publicly available for this episode only. 

Curated

In the age of the internet it seems as though there’s nothing that doesn’t get put online. Ultrasound photos, obituaries, dance videos, fanfiction, blog posts, selfies (so many selfies), love notes, sex tapes, death threats, music, and so much more. And all of it, they tell you, all of it lasts forever. When those ultrasound […]

Midnight Soliloquy

Dreams come easy