Window of Tolerance Guides
Miscellany
The Depths to Which We Need Each Other
Every person has two histories influencing their present actions and future choices. One history is made up of idiosyncrasies, assimilated norms, and life events — the way you hold a pencil, how you dance, the people you’ve loved and their influence on who you’ve...
Kachina Patriarch (poem)
I once walked atop a butte Each footstep greeted by a cloud of red dust The scent of desert sage The pain of us lost in relief — Canyon de Chelly in the near distance Arches another day Soon Mesa Verde — A promise to our shared forgetting: My travelogue and a...
Cautionary Words for Recovery from Sexual Trauma
One of the more consequential mistakes on my quest to recover from sexual trauma was my lack of discernment about the type of care I needed. Instead of guided by clear objectives, I was driven by a panicky urgency to escape anxiety and despair. I accepted the first...
Finding My Religion (poem)
That summer we pretended we were orphans, two sisters torn apart by misfortune, reunited by happenstance with only Earth to parent us. Hair matted thick from days of hill country winds and no one to make us bathe, we decided on a movie star archaeologist,...
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.”
— Doris Lessing