Birds Inside and Outside

As I sit down to write this, I have to stop: why was I so upset the other day? There are many reasons now. I was supposed to go to my sister’s birthday (masked, masked), but I had woken up afraid, and two meditations had not touched my fear. I cuddled up in my blankets. […]

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Our Business

From an American perspective, it may seem like Scrooge is wealthy. But in England, the wealthy were born into their wealth. It had been a relatively recent development that the middle class had become significant, that someone made his own money and could be proud of it and use it as he saw fit.While aristocrats […]

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The Books

How are you? A weird thing about me is that I feel less lonely. I’ve been mad at the unfairness of the world since I was ten years old, and now it seems the whole world is with me. I told you! I haven’t put in nearly as much time here, partly because I’ve been […]

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Recalibrating

I’m going to do a series of activities to keep myself from blowing away (or up) with the insanity and chaos that are 2020. I’m going to call it recalibrating. The world has yanked me all over the place, mopped the floor with me, and I need to figure out how to return to where […]

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