Oh! Ceilidh!
My slightly unhinged and sporadic thought dumps and poetry. <3
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Perimeter Tax (opens the original)
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I feel like I have something to say in the shadow of the shared histories and public reckonings going on regarding the Cornell 7 (57). Not saying something feels like agreeing to keep hiding.Over a decade ago, way before an engagement blurred what started as friendship, I traipsed through the snow with a man I trusted implicitly. We were having a conversation about male entitlement by the time we returned to my apartment. The way women aren’t believed or taken seriously and have to manage forwar
Mountain (opens the original)
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A ribbon of blue bleeds into paper towel, Watercolors pool where a river used to prowlThe old Underwood keys down a nearly silent confessionClack of metal teeth against digital obsessionYou paint me in washing blues, diluted and thinWhile the peak stands so cold where the glaciers beginThinking like a mountain, five thousand years deepHolding up the snow while the valley goes to sleepYou send targeted ads for a quick-fix for the terrainGranite never crumbles under temporary rainFlash of a Polaro
The Podcast (opens the original)
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Still on an absolute high from having a tiny vacancy in the back of my jaw.Who freaking knew?I'm sore and a little puffy, but THAT swelling is nothing when I look at selfies I took last week! There was all this crud built up from years of irritation and it has VISIBLY drained. My cheekbones became defined overnight. This. Is. Insane.My appetite hasn't been like this in years either, and FLAVOR is back. Again. Over-friggin-night. I had no idea how much was being impacted by procrastinating. I mea
Blood-Crater (opens the original)
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Holy shit Batman.IS THIS WHAT IT’S LIKE? I FINALLY got that stupid tooth that first lost part of a filling, then another part, then I broke it, then I broke it worse, then my dentist broke it more and it was no longer worth even attempting the root canal and crown I was saving for.That tooth has been causing discomfort since the before the effing pandemic, but then… my head was so messed up from other things - living in survival mode, living with mold and constant congestion, blah blah blah….Thi
Indie Date Line (opens the original)
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Day 1:Indy.My phone keeps autocorrecting to Indie. I let it go after the 5th time. What a long day.To end it watching Dateline and gabbing with the dude.The town is much cleaner than it was fifteen years ago. My evening walk was really pleasant, down to the monument circle and then back around the Capitol building, with a stop for a *chef's kiss* slice o’ pie. A friend stopped by for a hug. He's still standing at almost eleven feet of gourmet hot chocolate and window rattling laughter. Nice to c
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