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Everyone is falling in love and having babies. Musicians are travelling and planning shows. And I find myself sitting in a beach house with friends, sipping whiskey as the sun sets while reading their tarot cards. I should have been a therapist/reader as I spend so much time with people, picking up their energies. God. […]
Dearest Body, skin and Bones… You have to forgive me for all the years of abuse. But before you offer me forgiveness and understanding, I have to explain. I never knew that you, the skin my bones and muscles are wrapped around, and I are one and the same. No one ever told me that […]
You can’t escape it. Jehovah’s witnesses are still going door to door. Had my Father opened up…well, let’s just say he wouldn’t. Or if he could he would have thrown them with stones. My father, a revolutionary in his weary bones, cannot stand the church or organised religion. My Mother would argue doctrine of course… […]
There is so much I do not know about our country, its struggles, its histories and joys. As a musician, I know very few of the struggle songs, the music that fuelled the struggle, the revolution. My father was shocked while listening to me being interviewed on radio when the talk show host asked me […]
I start my day with a good thought. Like my Mother does, every single morning. A good thought, a great dream, a wonderful song and only then do I march or stroll into my day. I had a wonderful dream about the love of my musical life yesterday. What it was about, I don’t really […]
How often do we take a look at our lives and think of all the really good stuff eh? Some call it gratitude, others like my Mother call it Grace. Either way, I am gonna share some of mine. Dancing makes me happy. At Summer Camp, a trans music festival, I was offered a banana […]
Ah…and so the epiphany hits, as I sat outside and smoked. If our thoughts create our reality…then the truth has nothing to do with a lack of worthiness for me, at least. The simple truth is that it took me these last few years to feel safe around people and in my skin. To recover […]
Whenever I need my spirits lifted I go to a gay club. Here’s what I love….in CT there are few gay clubs so what one finds are people of every shape and color getting down and dirty. You have your queens who dance like they own the place. And everyone is there to serve and […]
Right now the sun is shining, the red of the Bougainville flowers, the emerald on the leaves have light streaming through them, and I can hear the sounds of the traffic merged with the sussuration of the leaves on so many trees. And all I can think of is music. Sometimes I wish I could […]
To a certain extent we are a bit selfish. We tend to view an event or set of circumstances through our own rose colored glasses. My pain, my past, my fears….without giving a thought to the bigger picture or the one who stands on the other side of the street. This applies to relationships of […]