I’ve been listening to Millenium (Backstreet Boys) lately. It’s my go-to comfort music at the moment. It transports me, every time I listen to it. Sometimes it transports me to the past, and I remember what it was like when I first heard them in middle school. Today I pictured myself in an old-folks home, …
Reflecting, Etc.
anticipatory grief: valentine’s day
Don’t hate me, ok? Ok. I love Valentine’s Day, because I’m a twee tweederdee at heart. Well. Not all the time but a lot of the time I’m a twee tweederdee at heart. I did make up that word. I feel like Valentine’s Day is a whole lot like Thanksgiving except for couples. There’s this …
stuff
I’ve been feeling a lot of pain, lately. Some of it’s physical, most of it’s emotional. Sometimes my humor runs thick, and sometimes I just glare at it, like, “No, you wanted to make a joke? Right now? How dare you.” Deflection and denial, my even self-gaslighting occasionally, to cope. I have grief ahead of …
hey
(my Canon is broken so I’m left with washed out Pinephone selfies) How are you coping with things? Sometimes there is no way to cope with things other than continuing to exist. I suppose that is what coping actually means. To find a way through, or past, to simply persist in life. Usually when I …
today
I’m thinking of everyone affected by the southern CA fires, right now. It’s a lot of people that I know. I used to live in that area, as did a lot of my ancestors. A family farm (started a few generations back) in that area burned down completely a few years ago, as did the …
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This blog post is holding space. Holding space for bad things that are happening today in the political world. Holding space for the memories of bad things that happened a year ago, today, too. I don’t want to talk. What I want to do is scream, cry, break things. Simultaneously angry and dissociated. Holding space.
latest things
It’s been kind of hard for me, the past few days, because I know school starts again soon, and I’m really enjoying seeing my kids. There has been lots of snuggling. Today I finally set up a chess board I got months ago, and got to play with my oldest. ♥️ I haven’t played chess …
protecting joy as an artist
(by the way- I don’t think I’ve introduced you to my piano- this is it! it’s a Chickering. it’s been in my family for four generations. it’s a player piano and has a pump pedal in the base 🙂 it’s lost some keys, and some have stopped playing- something I’m hoping to get fixed soon) …
additionally…
this happened. 😂 i apologize in advance no copyright infringement intended Alvin and the Chipmunks- The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late). (I think this was the karaoke track.) also we have gnomes. ♥️