Meditations in Portland
I was in Portland, Or, recently to visit my best friend and new baby. Portland was so wonderful this trip. The atmosphere here feels, and pulls at me, much stronger than it has before.I’ve been saying it for years, that I knew I was going to move back here…you know, “someday”—“someday” (what is it about that word that we love so much?)... [Read more...]
Know thyself
knowing your own heart.It can be the roughest, strangest, most foreign terrain on Earth.And in Heaven. I am having the roughest time lately with UNDERSTANDING my own heart. What she wants. Where she goes. I feel a general fog around my path, that obscures even the simplest decisions. I used to SEE with a blaze of fire and insight. I could dance circles... [Read more...]
Your Honor
The last month or so I’ve noticed an odd thing. I’ve been singled out by a smattering of various friends who feel like telling me about the positive impact I’ve made on their life. It’s as if they suddenly woke up with a strong sense of Complimetaryisis and called me up to waft fabulous, heartfelt, sincere, tear-inducing sweet... [Read more...]
Magik-Peter Murphy
Today looks like a perfectly ordinary day, but for me, it’s pure magic. Tonight I see the man who changed my life, over 17 years ago.Hopefully, this letter I sent to him a few years ago on his website will encapsulate the feelings he’s stirred in me, over time~~ “This is a moment in my life I have waited for…at 17, I received... [Read more...]
Tom Robbins-how he warms my cockles so
Tom Robbins has been the guiding force of my literary imagination for as long as back as I can reme…..well, to be specific I was 19. I can’t recall how I came by a copy of Another Roadside Attraction, but I did, and it blew my tiny mind, to put it mildly. It was then, and remains now, the oldest, most worn out, rattiest, cover duct-taped,... [Read more...]
