go here .

GO VOTE!!! and then join the huddled, hopeful masses in anticipation.

I started another blog. I wasn't going to tell anyone or even allow anyone to see it until I hit the road again. But, really, I kind o...

...Everyone. don't get me wrong. there is still family here yet! but most, it seems, are on the road and incomunicado. sigh. mi queri...

it drips off moments of subtle perfection and pools around my dirty feet  where they touch such beautiful earth it hangs in the air  like th...

Ouch. Ouuuch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Haven't posted in a while. been doing a lot of writing on paper- which has been nice, refreshing. Sometimes I want to sit and type, and ...

Debates make me want to gnaw my fingernails to death. John McCain is nothing new. Same old bullshit. Same old aggravating, truth-twisting,...

There are flecks of paint still gracing my hands from the creative flurry that erupted out of me a night ago. there is dirt beneath my finge...

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following ab...

This is a website promoting the film. It is truly incredible and worth checking out. Maybe YouTube has it for free or perhaps I'll jus...

Watching an amazing documentary/film on forgiveness. A few names... Thich Nhat Hanh Thomas Moore Elie Weisel Some issues... Catholic/Protest...

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT . NO JOKE, people. No 'Effing Joke. The "tactics" used by the Police at the Republican National Convent...

Well I heard a story about Alex Supertramp, he dared to live a Dream he loved and he died in the cold and damp, We could tell his story- tel...

Concerning the summer blockbuster, Tropic Thunder. "Stiller plays Tugg Speedman, a fading action star who earlier failed in his bid for...

Please don't break my heart. I really believed in you. In 2004, when election time came, I truly believed that you could never, in your...

"The nature of negative complexes and cultures is to pounce upon any discrepancy between the consensus about what is acceptable behavio...

From Women Who Run With the Wolves... "The shadow, also, however, can contain the divine, the luscious, beautiful, and powerful aspects...

Last night I was priviledged to be a part of a real-life Dream unfolding. A sister-friend of mine is writing a book, a collection of stories...

I..... hate....... FAX MACHINES!!!!!!!!!!! when i say this in my head-(i can't very well scream it out in the library can i??) it sounds...

As i sit typing this, my cat has jumped onto the desk and decided to display herself, in all her feline glory, in front of the computer scr...

the answer to each moment must be yes and the question: can you live with that? becomes the test so you weigh it against the aching in your ...

(...una hermana mia made up that word because "grumpy" doesn't translate well into Spanish. Saying "Grumpa-grumpa" ...

"If not now, when?"

i feel like i'm disappearing into the many roles that so many demand of me i feel like i am losing substance losing something essential,...

can't i just make it beautiful? can't i just show it just so.... that you'll do what i want you to? ha! there comes that control...

friend of mine, how i long to see you free- to see you walking your own path, singing your own song, in your own voice. i hear you praising ...

i climb the winding staircase to the inner room- isolated, silenced, She waits for me there. like a princess from a hundred different fairyt...

rapture pure bliss all these poems dancing in my head in my heart splattering onto the page and with a melody behind them playing sweetly me...

You Holy Mother Baba Yaga She Who Hears the Cries of the World- Skeleton Woman Kali Abuela You who know my heart my body my soul You who giv...

and i know my mind is made of matter but i need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core, because my heart is just a muscle- yes,...

Big heaving sobs. The kind of cry that leaves you with an aching head, puffy red eyes, and a chest cavity that feels just a little bit light...

somedays  are like that -Magic- full of twists and  turning corners surprises just waiting around doorways, delight hiding in the cracks and...

Maybe yo necessito escribir en una lengua diferente para espresar lo que esta pasando en mi vida, en mi corazon, en mi alma.   Maybe tengo q...

i am tired of driving home to a hot empty apartment whose silences echo in my four-chambered heart. for me there is no home-coming except to...

- There is this invigorating energy rush to your head- a clarity of vision that comes. It feels like facing the world lighter, freer, and u...

I have become one of those people that never writes anything new on their blog. How did that happen? ...What have i become?? Lack of interne...

Thank you. I forgot how much Tom Waits blows my mind. he's amazing. Dont go to church on sunday Dont get on my knees to pray Dont memor...

from my childhood. from some muppets movie, i think. Jaja! how strange- such an unlikely source of wisdom. :) when the Spirit says move,...

can you hear those crazy Beatles harmonizing in your head? i can. i have been so heavy lately. ugh. like quicksand-living. that's as...

"It's funny the things you remember, in retrospect. The bits of conversation, the intensity of emotions of a single moment, the exc...

baby, you're right as rain about the benefits, but you might be wrong about the cost- and it feeds my heart that you came looking for me...

Eyes brimming vision swimming with a hundred thousand faces i've been camping on the border-line of a meltdown for hours now, 'Hello...

THE WINDOWS OF MY SOUL ARE MADE OF ONE WAY GLASS DON'T BOTHER LOOKING INTO MY EYES IF THERE'S SOMETHING YOU WANT TO KNOW JUST ASK I ...

co-dependent for the world- i am feeling every little thing so, so deeply. i see the pain in other people's eyes and the place between m...

It's funny looking back on who you have been in different periods of your life. Who you were at that moment, and also the thread that yo...

'to be crucified with Christ' is what the Sioux were doing before they had ever heard that name. today i remember that this, too, is...

"Wish one of them would come to my house. They'd get a [ such and such ] gun to the head. I'd make them do a break dance they...

You haven't really lived in a place, until you have had your own personal get-down-dance party in it. I am happy to say that such an eve...

Dictionary.com tells me- 1. the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness. 2. truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness. 3. free...

"I don't know kara-te, but i know kuh-raaazy!" -James Brown

So, living alone. Very fun, actually. it's funny the little conversations we have with ourselves, the ones we aren't even aware of ...

as i move through the house, removing my things it feels as if i am removing myself as well, little by little gathering myself back into my ...

If generosity is not extended to everyone, it is not true generosity. If compassion is not extended to everyone, it is not true compassion. ...

What a gorgeous day it has been. Woke up with some yoga and qigong stretches and fed my body a delicious home-made smoothie. Did some ligh...

Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia.

i can hear it humming something good is on its way i feel a pulse in my chest my heart pumping out the rhythms of something ancient waking u...

I~ GOT~AN~ APARTMENT!!!!!! THE ~COOLEST~ APARTMENT~ EVER!

family comes in many forms from many places i have known such love shining in so many faces how many brothers and sister have I how many mot...

looks like my crazy family is down one crazy daughter cuz i'm shipwrecked in a desert that once was underwater just looking for a swift ...

All credit for that photo is due Colt Bender, an amazing photographer and pretty cool guy. Also, the title for the post is 1) my personal se...

When human love is limited and even wounding, the Beloved comes near and holds me.

Solidarity.

Check out this story . Has anyone else noticed a major-crack down on small groups of activists/protesters??? At the No Borders Camp in Calex...

Como vas a quitarle, una Madre de su Hijo? (How can you take her, a Mother from her Son?) Como vas a decirle que se tiene que ir? (How can ...

Looking for a place, may in fact, make me COMPLETELY INSANE. I had to hang up on what I had thought to be, possibly, a potential landlord be...

If anybody hears or knows of someone who is renting out their place or of someone who is looking for a roomate... please let me know!

I am going to start seriously investing in educating the boys, the young and grown men that I come into contact with in my Life, about what ...

Ok. I am going to be really real for a moment here. I just entered the Library, where I am working. I am here early to meet my mom and pri...

i think i'm done gunnin' to get closer to some imagined bliss i gotta knuckle down just be ok with this gotta knuckle down just be o...

condemned from public space i sing in the words from another's mouth raging guitar and pulsing bass are not enough to calm me today i go...

It is a Lie It is a lie- any talk of God that does not  comfort you. Rumi, Pay Homage If God said, "Rumi, pay homage to everything th...

...today was a rough day. Sometimes they just are, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, I found these quotes online and they made me smile, so i thought i...

How do i begin to explain all of these things to you? People whom i love and care about, people whom i honor and respect? How do i begin to ...

i hold eternity like a drop of water in my palm, whole unto itself i can hear it's fragile song- it whispers sweetly like the sound of t...

"The creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or double-tasking, the great work bef...

Literacy is a gift, a privilege even, that I take for granted. What is more powerful than being able to express yourself? And yet, maybe eve...

Ok . Probably not the best note to return on, but I'm being Real. Today I am extremely pissy . Yes, I said it. Pissy . As in Agitated, I...

What a ridiculous few weeks it has been. I say ridiculous only because i cannot believe how much has happened in such a relatively short tim...

my mind a labyrinth of thoughts blending twisting flashes of faces old places and ways of being so many letters to write that i will never s...

The full Moon was so beautiful last night.

Maheo, Pacha Mama, Creator, Mi Diosito- i ask for nothing more than a Compassionate Heart- a mouth that is slow to speak, understanding with...

four wheel drive a coyote crosses the road and i slow i forget how far the turn off is from here so i find the silhouette in the distance wi...