There is a vastness you cannot encompass, you cannot imagine unless you are standing at the reference point. Dirt roads disappeared into corn fields and the reappeared into acres of greens and browns. The half dead and half awakened earth. The rough dirt and rocks throwing up dust from vehicles of weight and speed. Paying […]
Monthly Archives: April 2020
BIG glorious baskets
Last week I had an interesting conversation with my doc in MN. We had a virtual appointment to check-in. She always asks me what I am learning in school. I picked up one of my books and started talking about disability myths and named a few of them. I spoke about ableism/disablism, and how ableism […]
Storytellers
How is everyone doing? How is everyone feeling? I have been struggling with what to write, what not to write, or if I should be writing my blog at all, at this time. I think you are supposed to keep doing what you are doing; keep doing what you have always done, and keep moving […]
Gathering
I have been doing a lot of gathering lately, collecting thoughts. And then there are long waves and short waves of anxiety and worry and sadness, then hopefulness. When I start to freeze within or around the edgings of the first three, I have to move my mind and my body. I have to be […]
She was light
When she laughed she would throw her head back, her deep vibrato voice would carry out the door and down the hallway. She had a bronze tone to her skin. Her arms had muscles long and firm that showed she worked out, protected her otherwise small frame. She had no hips and she would laugh […]