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IN BLOOM I

Spring in Oregon is truly a wild thing. Wildly flowery, it’s not uncommon for it to rain both water and petals this time of year. End of Winter wind raucously blowing the petals all around and everywhere, they stick to vehicles, roads, sidewalks, and the bottom of your shoes. The sun making it’s hesitant presenceContinue reading “IN BLOOM I”

OPEN & WILLING

There have lately been occurrences of longer than normal periods of the actual *gasp* SUN here in the pacific nw: It’s been nice to get out in it. Is it an early Spring? I can’t help but think that Spring leads into Summer & then a feeling of foreboding floods me. Summer is my intention/newContinue reading “OPEN & WILLING”

DATA WIPE

I’ve been saving old Iphone pictures and felt like posting some of them here. I talk about California and more specifically Long Beach, CA in this blog so it feels good to chronicle a bit of the past here. I would guess that they are from 2010-2013. Many of them are old Instagram shots. IContinue reading “DATA WIPE”

A PARTY, SOME FRIENDS, AND TOO MUCH SUGAR

We are such complicated creatures. We have so many layers and long buried memories and old pangs of hurt. When I came to AA I was scared to enter a public place like a coffee shop. I was scared everyone was looking at me, that they knew about that tangle of darkness inside of me. Continue reading “A PARTY, SOME FRIENDS, AND TOO MUCH SUGAR”