“a quick turn around a cornerand my planet becomes sandon the shore of a dying Universe”

“We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.”

“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”

“The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.”

“Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.”

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

“I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.”