Hello, beautiful boot-wearers!* So I hope you have had a nice week trying to hold in your mind things like “now there is an EO designed to ban Muslims**” AND “now the congressional switchboards are melting, because the most ever people are like ‘no the fuck thank you.’” Both at once. Everything at once. To get my boots … More Help Me Get These Boots On: February 4, 2017
I’ve been ready for a new title for this for a while. I still need help not being such as ass, as I believe we all do, but that’s not been what’s guided my media choices for a while… probably since the personal trauma of the spring, and certainly now in this zenith of white supremacist … More Help Me Get These Boots On: January 21, 2017
A while back I made up a word analogous to “philosophy/φιλοσοφία,” (love of wisdom): “philerotisi/Φιλερώτηση “(love of questions). And: sure. I stand by that word. “Live the questions!” smart spiritual people say, because Rilke said it and because it’s wise. Lately though I’ve noticed that I have so many questions, like just way more I can “live” … More Quit Assking
From July 10-24, I was on a piece of land formerly known as the Fort Ord Army base. The base was closed in 1994, and now it is the California State University at Monterey Bay. I was there for a graduate writing course called “Essay Writing: Personal Passions and Public Issues.” And it was indeed a course: … More What I Made at Camp
Help me not be such an ass; help me also be this ass I am right now, right where I am. This one is SO SHORT. You really won’t even believe it. Are you someone who is generally like “thanks, Sarah, for these too too many things. Now I can’t bear to look at any … More Being Prassent
The title doesn’t feel right anymore. One thing I have noticed about grief is that some things just don’t feel right anymore; sometimes it’s because they seem too normal, and how can anything be normal, and sometimes it seems like they just no longer fit or apply or are needed now. I experience this as a … More Something About Grace and This Ass
Hello! Lately I keep thinking “my God, what a time to be alive! and reading!” There is just so much and it’s so interesting and good and I cannot keep up. I have a book in every room right now because I can’t stop starting them, and it means my mind is so swirly, and … More Help Me Not Be Such an Ass: Jan 15-Feb 14, 2016
Anne Lamott offers us “three essential prayers” (lovely I think whether you are a pray-er or not): Help, Thanks, and Wow. She also names a bonus fourth: Help Me Not Be Such an Ass. In my experience, keeping this one set to “heartily invoked” is enough to draw nigh much that is brain-breaking and beautiful. Here’s some… 1. … More Help Me Not Be Such an Ass: Dec 14-Jan 9, 2016
Hello good people! Heavens, we live in a world, don’t we? It’s all so much. And you are so lovely, to be reading this; I mean that both because it’s really meaningful to me that anyone does so, and also because…well, it includes the premise that you are probably an Ass, because we all are, and further, that … More Help Me Not Be Such an Ass: November 23-December 14
Hoo my, it’s been a busy month, and I’ve been all in my own stuff and not reading/watching quite as much. So much of the Help I’ve sought and received has been with real people right in front of me, and sometimes it feels like “yes! and that’s all that can ever really matter!“…but as … More Help Me Not Be Such an Ass: Oct 17-Nov 22
interlexionality 