synchopation

I have the day off and I’m gleefully miring my way through an inconceivably long to-do list. I have yet to figure out how to accomplish my every day life and everything else that needs to get done. The biggest thing I’ve accomplished: completely reorganizing and painting my studio. Last year sometime, in the middle [...]

Feeling the earth spin

I used to be able to lie down on the grass and relax into the very center of my solar plexus and feel the earth spin. Really. My whole body would tune to the thrumming velocity of the earth twirling on its axis very fast, gravity pressing my body into the ground. Then one day [...]

Running Mix

Bette Davis Eyes– Kim Carnes Suddenly I See—KT Tunstall Sexual–Amber Deeper And Deeper—Madonna Erotica Above The Clouds —Amber Back In My Life–Alice DeeJay Around The World–ATC Don’t Tell Me—Madonna What You Waiting For—-Gwen Stefani Take On Me—a-Ha Better Off Alone —Alice DeeJay My Heart Goes Bang—Dead Or Alive Danger Zone—Kenny Loggins Call Me—Blondie Missing—Everything But [...]

Finding the beat

Last week I was like a satellite thrown out of orbit, twirling in crazy loops from all the scrambled sleep, and the on-edge waiting. I let myself slip haphazardly out of my routine of writing mornings, first thing while the house is still sighing in its sleep. I’d hear the alarm, and peer at it [...]

Running in the rain

I went running for the first time today since our move six weeks ago. It felt a bit like remembering how to bike again after a long hiatus: the synchronized action of my limbs following the kinesthetic blueprint of forward motion. I never wrote about not running the marathon, but I didn’t, and it made [...]