So this is love. On turning 40.
Sol de Janiero Bum Bum cream, the birthday gift from Sephora that at 40 now seems most enticing, open on my computer screen. The end of summer’s 15% off from […]
Category Archives: culture
Teacher, Poet, Language Midwife
I was cooking dinner last December, thinking about what else to add in for more weekly income and work. I thought about a writing tutor position I had considered last year, […]
Concrete & Cypress
It’s an imperfect science, really. The way it’s putting water on the stove to boil for dinner at 8:23pm, while you stand there in the bathroom sopping up wet Monday […]
We Artitsts, Dreamers, & Ingenues
And then hope leaped up into my heart and echoed down the ivory arching curvature of my ribs. Four small letters, like an ink map tethered softly along the bone. […]
We’re Real
“And I thought about how in those moments, the things that sometimes make us feel like so much less than all of those whole self connected things, felt to be so foreign.”
Vrksasana City {Poetry}
In the hustle and bustle of December city life, how do we preserve our minds from energetic strife? One foot grounded in a concrete flow, while our larger Soul muscles […]
Grace, Guts & Spirit
Her hamstrings reached out over the ground, grateful for the cool sensation of an earthen surface. Heels pressing down into the dampness of leaves and fallow land as her back […]
I want this music…and mine.
I find myself hard-pressed to disagree with Rumi, we’re blood relatives from the same energetic tribe, like the way the wings of the scapula mirror each other, those back body […]
Glass Shoes {Poetry}
Surprising how glass shoes can carry you, down side streets, along concrete city sidewalks speckled with gum and paid meters, over brown wooden floors, up to orange rubber yoga mats […]
Bowing Out & Wading in
I hadn’t been taking enough time to bow out. Yes, I’d been bowing to my students before and after class, acknowledging the energy within them and around us in that […]
Lindsey O'Neill 