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Tuning In: February 2025

2/1/2025

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Each month I post an update called Tuning In on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website.

February is often a difficult month. Not to mention the deeply difficult time we are living through. I'm reminded of the lyric from Fortnight by Taylor Swift:

All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February 

But I was given a gift that will make this February much lighter than past Februarys. I was told to listen to a podcast and it has truly opened my mind and made me excited about spirituality for the first time in a long time. The podcast is called: The Telepathy Tapes. Here is the description from the website: 

"In a world that often dismisses the extraordinary as mere fantasy, The Telepathy Tapes dares to explore the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism—individuals who have long been misunderstood and underestimated. These silent communicators possess gifts that defy conventional understanding, from telepathy to otherworldly perceptions, challenging the limits of what we believe to be real. For years, their parents and teachers have quietly witnessed these remarkable abilities, knowing that the time to share their truth would eventually come. But now, as the evidence mounts, the time has come to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight."

If it speaks to you, it will drastically change your perspective. If it doesn't, then it won't resonate with you. But I feel like it's an interesting listen that has the potential to benefit a lot of people. 
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Harbor Seal, Lincoln Park, West Seattle

Upcoming Events:
  • Groundhog Day is January 1st, 2025
  • ​National Wear Red Day is February 7th, 2025 
  • Galentine's Day is February 13th, 2025
  • Valentine's Day is February 14th, 2025 
  • President's Day is February 17th, 2025
  • ​Rare Disease Day is February 28th, 2025
 
Facilitating: 
  • Center for Chronic Illness - Living with Rare Chronic Illness Support Group, Tuesday February 4th, 2025 at 4pm PST. 

Attending:
  • Not attending any events or trainings this month. 
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Lincoln Park, West Seattle

Book Club: All Fours by Miranda July 
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"
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive."

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​(I'm a proud member of the sloth reading club, so what I'm reading will not always change monthly) 

​Vintage Art: 
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Vintage Valentine

​Song on Repeat: ​The Origin of Love from Hedwig And The Angry Inch 

"I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine
That's the pain
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it love"


Quote: "The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - David Bowie
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Rewrites: January 2025

1/31/2025

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Each month I post an update called Rewrites on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website.

I don't know what to write this month. Usually, I attempt to be uplifting & encouraging. Each day the news hits in a new and painful way. I'm so angry, but my anger comes with great sadness. If we're lucky, we are offered a life and given the opportunity to either live with love & compassion or hate & greed. None of this is surprising. The unconscious human soul is a destructive force—constantly compensating, constantly othering. The empty spaces inside us are impossible to fill without connection & vitality. 

I've turned to haiku & poetry for solace. Keep doing your work for good. Keep writing. 
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Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac

Publications: 
  • 1 of my haiku was published in the The Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue, January 29th, 2025.

long story short falling star 

Attended:
  • Camerawork in Poems with Jenny Johnson 
            
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Rose by Li-Young Lee

​Books I Finished in This Month: 
  • All Fours by Miranda July 
  • Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac 
  • Rose by Li-Young Lee 
  • Hatch by Marnie Richie 
  • This One We Call Ours by Martha Silano 
  • How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong 
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Hatch by Marnie Richie

​Haiku: 


Who wd have guessed
     that a January moon 
Could be so orange!
​
Jack Kerouac 


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This One We Call Ours by Martha Silano

​Poem:

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
by e.e. cummings


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                      i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)​

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How To Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong

Quote:
"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot ​
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Tuning In: January 2025

1/1/2025

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Each month I post an update called Tuning In on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website.

Instead of making New Year's resolutions, I choose a word to represent an intention for the coming year. In 2024, my word was "momentum." In January of last year, I wrote that I was "ready for my wings." Perhaps I should've chosen a phrase instead of a word, like "building momentum." I feel my wings pushing through, but only as small buds.

Last year I finished my first year of my MFA in Creative Writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and completed the Outside Experience requirement of the program by riding all the Washington State Ferry routes. Yet, the entire year felt like a lot of fits and starts—lacking the steady movement I was hoping for last January. Which is why this year I am choosing the word "center." My goal this year is to keep my aspirations in focus and when I am knocked off my center remember to keep coming back to it as much as necessary. 

Focusing on my work life, my creative life, my family & friends, and ongoing healing. 

What is your word for 2025? ​
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Ferry Lights from Lincoln Park, West Seattle

Upcoming Events:
  • New Year's Day is January 1st, 2025
  • ​Save the Eagles Day & National Houseplant Appreciation Day is January 10th, 2025
  • National Nothing Day is January 16th, 2025
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day is January 20th, 2025
 
Facilitating: 
  • Center for Chronic Illness - Living with Rare Chronic Illness  Support Group, Tuesday January 7th, 2025 at 4pm PST

Attending:
  • Not attending any events this month. 
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All Fours by Miranda July

Book Club: All Fours by Miranda July 
​
"
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive."

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​(I'm a proud member of the sloth reading club, so what I'm reading will not always change monthly) 

Vintage Art: 
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New Years Eve Party, 1931-1932

Song on Repeat: ​New Year's Day by Taylor Swift 

"Hold on to the memories
They will hold on to you"


Quote: "Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage." - Susan Sontag
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