It’s with a feeling of quiet achievement and sadness that I continue putting my Patreon and my website together. The achievement feels quiet because everything takes longer. Sometimes, it feels like I’m writing and developing the website through a sheet of nearly opaque glass. The sadness is about the time
Sometimes, I drive myself away from the page with the expectation that my thoughts and writing “should” be profound and uplifting. I come here now to remind myself that my creative work, whether sacred or profane, is what I live for. My body is wracked by pain and exhaustion. I
Jan 20, 2020 Here we are, twenty days into a new decade and weariness remains, settling over me and dragging my heavy bones into the earth. We enjoyed a few days of snow, then a couple of days of chaos as snow alternately melted, froze, and fell again, making
December 11, 2019 I wake, tired and nauseous, knowing I will have to go back to bed to get more rest. A few broken hours of sleep won’t cut it. But I come from the shower – the heat having warmed my bones, settled the pain, and opened my