From My Humble Perspective

who gets to decide to be a Human in this country?
context: i am in a break out room on a deep canvassing virtual training, alone because the person i'd been partnered with disappeared....

checking in - leveling up
i haven't posted since may 5th, because may 6th i got arrested. it was the first time i'd ever been put in handcuffs. far too tight. it...

emotion = energy in motion
tuesday! today i woke up and walked to the park where i did some cartwheels and practiced my handstands for a bit, before jogging back to...

devastatingly devoted // letting "love" leave
versatile, volatile. when will my words stop being caught, stuck in my throat, tapped into existence by my calloused hands. "children are...

earth day 2023
i had a really great earth day actually. i met up with my brother jay and we biked to red hook farm where we volunteered for a couple...

how do you measure a year?
i took this photo of my wristband after my first endoscopy this past tuesday. [wild! but also comforting to know that doing the Serious...

recalibrating my reflexes
okay so my response time could use some work. the whole assess, process, apply that we're supposed to have as like a survival skill, is...

prioritizing my own pace
i look forward to weekends. the time i know is just for what i want it to be. one of my super powers is that i can find a way to find joy...

where i wish i was, versus where i need to be
today i was torn, that was dramatic, but that's what i'm good at. emoting, feeling, expressing. first off, i was definitely unwell this...

2/24 and 2/25 // reflections and resolutions?
i am officially *online* (25 days here and finally having functioning wifi) which is *exciting* and also a little disorienting because my...

what stops me from sticking to the plan?
so since the year began, i'd planned on not posting till the first bardo loop of 2023 passed, (a bardo loop is a tibetan concept, a...

don't dwell
dwelling dawdling, dragging my feet. all i want to do is walk to the beat, of my own heart. i can't hear it, but i can feel it. thump....

macerating misery
misery loves company mother or miser, how about both and? now that i am older, now that i take care of my own needs, i can face the...

screaming shouting shrieking
i never realized how much i longed for the quiet stillness of peaceful silence, the kind of tranquility that comes when you know that the...

letting go, letting grow
i keep making foolish mistakes, but some of them are necessary for me to realize all my unnoticed areas of growth. like small details...

organic material
today when i woke up, my will to run was stronger than my will to be, and i ended up jogging and enjoying it (though i didn't log how far...

"do you even sleep?" -baby j
i write most comfortably at what most people would consider unorthodox hours, right now it's 3:30am, not that anyone asked; but it's the...

