On Sunday, October 2nd, I attended Masters and Slaves Together, NYC Metro: http://www.mastmetrony.org/ They are a chapter of Masters and slaves Together International (I really do dislike the lower case of Slaves, I always capitalize all positions in my writing, or none.) At the end of the meeting, they mentioned that the Secretary was not [...]
Currently, there are thousands of people amassed downtown in New York, as part of the Occupy Wallstreet movement/protest. All over the country, supporting marches/protests/movements have erupted- from Boston to Los Angeles, San Francisco to Indiana, Maine to Florida. It has moved international with events happening in London, Prague, Cork, and even in Slovenia. Hundreds of [...]
In the past week and a half, I have been profoundly thankful. Tears have been shed, realities have been turned upside down, and its led to more than a few ahas. Some of them, I pray, will stick. I have sent out a LOT of thank you notes. I am still working on them, but [...]
I am delighted that fall has come in New York. Like my friend Boymeatwho dances each time it turns to late spring and early summer, I am delighted because one of my historical fetishes becomes common, rather than rare. The fetish? Sweaters. Boymeat’s fetish is for feet, something everyone who knows him seems to know. [...]
In the past 3 days, I have had a huge (and seemingly random) flare up of interest in my work as a painter, specifically in my devotional paintings. Well, you asked for prints- you got them. The images I was able to get high quality shots of have been turned into prints over at my [...]
Today a shaman wrote me, their own struggles painfully reflected in mine. The difference was that my tribe had stepped up to feed me, and theirs had not. My fingers spoke back. I hear your feeling of isolation, disconnect and uncertainty around support. For a long time, I felt very similar… though the feeling of [...]
24 hours ago I posted a call for assistance. Hoping to get rent covered, maybe the bills, fingers crossed. I have been blown away by the generosity and outpouring of love Aiden and I have received. Between paypal, checks we know are on the way, and other items, our immediate financial concerns are all set. [...]
It’s 4am, and no rest for the wicked it seems… or less wicked, and more set for seeing what comes next. Through a strange set of circumstances, my Boy and I were approved by my doctors to travel, drugs upped and emergency plans made- and off we went by chinatown bus to DC for the [...]
Another waiting room, another round of the same, the new. When facing the shadow of our own truth, where do we turn? Inward – Outward – Through Chapter 7 becomes a reflection in the mirror, judgement and projection painted upon my brow. Who do we become, when we are but ourselves? The screen clouds, chairs [...]
I have had guilt over a processing tool I use. Distraction. Over the years I have had a number of different individuals, when I hit an emotional spiral and am spinning with my issues, say I have to keep digging. I do, and I spiral deeper, deeper, into an emotional abyss- brands on my arms [...]