Upside Down

I’ve never done this before, but I want to dedicate this post to my dear friend Tuaca, who I love, and she knows it.
I went to my first aerial dance class yesterday.  I swung around and climbed and went upside down on a big circus rope and hanging fabric like those super pretty people [...]

The break up

So I’m at that lousy moment. My Ego and I have had a longstanding love affair, intercepted with bouts of Buddhism where I decided to pay it less mind, but it’s been pretty hot and heavy again lately. And here I find my self figuring out how to call it quits. Once and [...]

Dancing and swimming

Swimming upstream
seems to me a strange destiny
for an entire species.
Then again,
if the water didn’t move,
nothing would be nourished.
If the gravity didn’t pull,
the water wouldn’t move.
The interdependencies
created by having all of us here
are beyond any possibility of understanding.
I wonder
that there is any swimming at all.
There must be an extraordinary
amount [...]