I am the water [a poem]

The site went down yesterday for the first time ever due to a fluke, so I make a peace offering with this poem I wrote last year and a brief introduction about it. I have always felt a rather deep, truly divine connection to water. Even that feels an understatement – it’s more accurate to…

On top of the world

I woke up today feeling absolutely in charge of life. I decided I was going to master my yoga headstand today. So far, I’ve ended up with a lot of shoulder muscle soreness and disappointment at discovering I’m actually not a natural-born gymnast in hiding. Nonetheless, the day is young and I remain optimistic. I…

liberation through balance

This was my theme for 2014, both as (I like to think it was) I decided and as it was handed to me. On the topic of balance, someone recently said to me, Balance, I guess, can be viewed in two ways: in the verb tense, as in to actively balance something with something else,…