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“We are whales, swimming in a fish bowl.” (opens the original)
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I wasn’t there when one of the guys said the below and italicized, to Lilly, my co-facilitator. This is my interpretation, of Lilly’s interpretation, of what he said:“Think of us as gold fish in a fish bowl. Here we are in prison, swimming around, doing the best we can, as little fish. But then you guys come and you teach us things, like how to dance or write a poem. When you come here, you remind us that we can grow and we can love, and so we do. We grow and we grow, and we love and we love. It
Black Widow Spider Bite (opens the original)
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Lay down on the floor and close your eyes. Feel the floor, and the ground that holds you. I was home alone when I got bitten by a black widow spider while talking to a friend on the phone. The pain of the bite didn’t feel significant. Felt like it what it was, which was the clamping down of a millimeter sized mouth, on the back of my thigh. Sense if you can, the smallest, most minute, micrometered pull. This pull comes from the internality of your body. That place that nobody knows, but you. I k
the tenderness of men (opens the original)
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Arya, the editor I’m working with, made a list of the “Less Visible Threads” of this book I’m so slowly working on:The MotherStillness, emptiness, and waiting as potent spacesThe house as body, body as homeThe Sky InsideConnection to Earth The unexpected tenderness of menI see these less visible threads of the first five too. They make sense to me and I’m
The Spiral. (opens the original)
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I’m not doing the married, ever after. I wouldn’t even do it with Glen.When he — Glen — asked me if I wanted to get married on a walk we took one evening, during a family vacation years and years ago, I stopped in my tracks, looked at him and said something close to but not exactly: “Married? Me and you? I don’t wanna do that. Do you wanna do that?”Glen said something close to but not exactly: “No, I don’t want to, but I would marry you if that was important to you.” I looked at him, stepped clo
Congratulations to A.C.T Ensemble (opens the original)
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Wanted to share this with you, since I mentioned A.C.T Ensemble yesterday:This article about the play that A.C.T Ensemble produced and performed at Limon Correctional Facility this past weekend.Julie Rada led the ensemble and did a beautiful job.Something Julie and I texted about this morning, is how special the cross-pollination is, that is happening right now with all of the art programs in the prisons.The work of everyone inside from <a href="https://unbou
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