Joy comes first

Joy comes first

doodle, on my new Wacom graphics tablet “What else do you have to stake? Just your misery. The only pleasure you have is talking about it. Look at people talking about their misery, how happy they become! They pay for it; the go to psychoanalysts to talk about...

Sacred Circle of the ocean

I call for you to join the sacred circle. I blow into the mouth of a conch shell, and across the oceans the sound travels. It reaches you where you are sitting right now, and you hear it not, just with your ears but with your belly. The slow, melodic call of the...
2006 bloggies

2006 bloggies

“The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in...
the twirling of fire

the twirling of fire

jess It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e.e. cummings These photos were taken by me and spunky lover while on holidays. It was my dad’s 50th birthday, and my sister’s 25th birthday. We were having a party, and my brother’s...
for you…

for you…

I sang this song in a choir when I was 15. I loved its deep mellowness,how it resonated in my bellyand floated out like my mouth was that of a river joining the sea.It touched some deep part in me that was still sore from losing my brother.It soothed me, rocked me,...