Last week, quietly and without much fanfare, alpha // whiskey // foxtrot surpassed a milestone that still blows my mind a little bit: by my latest check, I’ve got 1,066 followers and counting. I’ll be honest: this is both wonderful and a little unsettling. Most days, I envision myself writing to about as many friends as I […]
Tag: body
be still …
Noon. I curl up on the down-filled sofa under the big bay window. Watch the light flickering down through the limbs of the old oak: There is nothing I must puzzle out here: no meaning to decode. No sign or symbol to deconstruct. There’s just me, with the sun warm on my skin. And the sun […]
When I am running in the dark, in a river of light …
Two days ago, for the first time in a long time, I ran. * There’s a little event held every Tuesday in Roanoke called the Pub Run. It begins at Wasena City Tap Room and loops through the greenway in either a three-mile or five-mile course. It felt strange, and also comforting, to run in such a […]
I am going to tell you a secret now …
At least once a week, some kind, well-meaning person asks me when I am going to write a book. And inside, where you can’t see it, I flinch. Now, the Current Me, the one you can see standing in front of you — she doesn’t flinch. She stands there with her smooth face and her smile, […]
This is me, before I wore my body like a ball & chain … {on innocence lost … & joy reclaimed}
The other day, while rummaging around in an old box of photos, I stumbled over this snapshot from the 1990s, and I just couldn’t look away: For two days now I’ve been going back to it, trying to puzzle what it is about the image that haunts me so. And then today, it struck me: […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Last Look
August 10, 2014 Today my heart is hungryfor some new horizon.I’m not talking about a placeyou get to with a passport.I’m talking about a placeyou get to by opening your eyes. And I want to reclaimall the places inside meovertaken by darkness–dark not because the lightstopped shiningbut because my soulstopped seeing. /// {{Wondering what’s going […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Thirty-Nine
August 8, 2014 You guys know this is a brave photo for me … BRAVE. So I must be having that kind of day today. ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Thirty-Eight
August 7, 2014 A shot from today’s walk in the woods … As always, I went hunting light and shadows… ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Thirty-Seven
August 6, 2014 This is me taking a second look at one of my paintings … & myself. Creator, creation, all caught in the act of creating … again. ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Thirty-Six
August 5, 2014 If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past thirty-odd days, it’s that I can’t get enough of playing in the light: It transforms everything it touches — erases, reveals, alters all the lines… When I’m standing in it, I see the world differently. I see *myself* differently. I’m fluid, capable of […]
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