What Happens When You Jump

Spring 2008
I’ve been working on getting internet in my bungalow for about 3 weeks. Without it, several times a week I spend most of the day walking down into town, checking email, going to market, doing other errands, and returning back home either by walking or combi (public minibus) by around 4. That’s practically a [...]

Summer 2008
I have my period again. That juicy well-oiled feeling coursing through me fully, thickly.
I was hanging clothes on the line thinking,  “What could be better than this?” and realized: It’s not what it is, it’s that it is. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, it’s that I am doing it. That anything , all [...]

Washing my clothes outside, in the minutes before the inaugeration, a distant trumpet player I’d never heard in these airs play two songs: When the Saints Go Marching In, and the old blues/jazz standard It Ain’t Necessarily So. The Universe was playing in my realm today…these songs reflect some of the possible ways of responding [...]