I usually take my watercolors along and try to knock out a few postcards while I’m sitting on the beach–it’s a good way to pass the time, and salt water creates some neat effects with the pigments. Also, in lieu of writing a journal-style blog post about my week on the coast, I wrote aContinue reading “Wright’s Beach: Watercolors and Haiku”
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Wright’s Beach: Photos
I spent a whole week camping at Wright’s Beach with the dogs this year, which gave me plenty of beach days as well as excursions to dog parks and trails in the area. Since I have reels of beach photos already, I tried to take pictures in some other locations like Ft. Ross, the oldContinue reading “Wright’s Beach: Photos”
Bouncy (ATEEZ)
In case you’ve been wondering what my boys are up to, they have a new album out! It’s not my favorite, to be honest, but the choreography for the title track “Bouncy (K-Hot Chili Peppers)” is *hard* and they are absolutely killing it. It’s their most street, hip-hop choreography to date, and I think theyContinue reading “Bouncy (ATEEZ)”
Mushroom Camp
It all started with the Mushroom Fairy. I was hiking Three Lakes Trail up at Donner Summit with my dogs, maybe 10 years ago, and suddenly out of the woods stepped this beautiful girl—wearing a full peasant skirt, long dark hair braided back, carrying a basket full of mushrooms. At least that’s how I remember her.Continue reading “Mushroom Camp”
Excerpt from Discard Devotional: Season Three, Dwelling
Day 72: Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” As you are learning more about God’s love for you, and your identity in Him, and how precious you are to Him, it’s important toContinue reading “Excerpt from Discard Devotional: Season Three, Dwelling”
Aikido and Rhetoric: Flow
Kykeon [Greek horchata] is not itself when it is not in motion. Heraclitus, fragment 84 Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly. Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace, 72 When we think of being attacked, we think of ourselves as stationary andContinue reading “Aikido and Rhetoric: Flow”
A Weekend in Las Vegas
Vegas gets a bad rap, and deservedly so: it sprawls out in every direction like it’s scrambling for dollars at a strip club, oblivious to the needs of the environment and the wellbeing of the people who live there—heck, even threatening the livelihoods of ranchers hundreds of miles away in its endless thirst for growthContinue reading “A Weekend in Las Vegas”
Letter of Recommendation: Patching Things Up
As I’ve mentioned before, I have an aversion to throwing things out. Part of the aversion is a familial and cultural inheritance, but part of it is just my personality: I tend to anthropomorphize things, and so if I’ve loved something–loved living with it and using it, loved how it looked and the way itContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Patching Things Up”
How MourningDove Spends Her Saturday
I was going to start out by saying this was a parody of the NYTimes “How a X Spends Their Sunday” feature, but then I realized the Sundays documented in that feature are the parodies…. Honestly I don’t see how any human being can fit in that many brunches and play dates and pilates classesContinue reading “How MourningDove Spends Her Saturday”
Drama Queen: Queenmaker
Have you read Naomi Alderman’s The Power? If not, you should (before you watch the Amazon Prime version….) It imagines a world where women hold the power because, via a genetic mutation, they become physically superior to men. Spoiler alert: It’s not utopia. But still there’s something enticing about a politics based on consensus andContinue reading “Drama Queen: Queenmaker”
The Rookery 