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I am a bad witch my eye teeth are long top and bottom your weight in my mouth feels right and your squeaks I will shake you but not kill...

It's not passive, staying - with the hurt bits and fears; it's muscular, it burns calories. If you plan to stay, you need to eat a hearty...

This year I was in Mexico for Dia De Los Muertos. Families cover graves with marigolds, set out fruit and soda, photos of prized...

What if the ways through are also whole places? What if the ferrymen are also men, with shoes under their beds and a changing assortment...

Holy from PIE root *kailo- "whole, uninjured" I don't know how to keep things whole, uninjured. Most things I guard get sick and sicker....

I need a God who fucks up, a fallible god. A god who leaves things out accidentally and when I trip and fall and become injured it is...

Magic - from Old Persian magush: magician, from the Proto Indo European root magh: to be able. To have power. The one who is able: the...

Much of the time, when I'm stuck, the thing I'm stuck in is me. I'm starting to suspect that's all there is for me to do this time...

Their feet are wide. They're heavy. They will crush your rigid edges on their way to your good river. After downpours you will no longer...

These days it seems to me my body is more like a flock of birds than I previously realized; making and unmaking itself, bound by some...

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be...

What should I do when I love doomed things? When I love dead and dying things, and tangled and mired things that are not about to become...

Accept is made from the root word kap, "to grasp," w hich made the word kapati, "two handfuls" in Sanskrit. Later it made kaptein "to...

Last week I met my sister. I want you to see her. I want you to see us together, with our family. My family. Ours. I want you to look at...

com - with fort - strength This is my Aunt Ruth. She helped my mother raise me. By the time I was born her heart had...

Here is my father, when he was young. He made my sister, Rosio., and me. I met him once, for a few days, when I was seven. I've never...

The thing about my fear is that she's frightened and she's frightening. I catch her staring at me with her black eyes and, from time to...

When Jenny Serna suggested I ask the plants for help - for my body and my heart - I felt unsure. Why would they help me? I pave things...

Hey, all! I’m Sage (@surge_lactose). This month’s Grief House theme is trust. This is Copper. She came to R&R New Options Equine when she...

I've been thinking about that sentence. It could feel like a gift and rejoicing - I'm trusting you! I'm doing it! My heart is unclenched....