daily life/art/culture/justice and how they merge, clash, & play inside my northern state of mind (set in Hokkaido and Minnesota)
(Outsider art from Asahikawa Public library) This Morning I dreamt my man held my hand against his warm green sweater The man in jean shorts I share a bus stop with finally mouthed good morning The brick storefront I stand in front of just had a silver spiral door knob installed Fog covered the fields, […]
Well, as the world around me begins to speed up and populate the minutes with complexity, I need to slow down and remind myself in a mantra that ‘stress around me doesn’t have to equal stress inside me,’ and if I can maintain a sense of humor about this chaotic and eclectic circus called life, […]
I love graveyards, though maybe many people find that odd. I like walking where I feel the bones and spirits are resting, reading the headstones and imagining the singular life of its occupant. I once did a research project about an early turn-of-the-century graveyard in Alabama, how it grew into being an idealized community of […]