#ThankYouPatrons for a year of support through staggeringly heartbreaking and revelatory times. Because of you: I’m able to spend time with the dying and their families which is a crash course in reckoning with the troubling question of elderhood or lack thereof, and in this process have been disabused of about a dozen or so other spurious notions about ancestry, grief, and the merits of prolonging human life in a death-phobic culture. I’ve been able to set aside hustling $25 watercolors ad nauseum or pursuing licensing contracts and make work that is less popular, takes more time, requires deeper consideration, and doesn’t cater to the gaze of social media - this has not made creating new work any easier, actually, but it has given me a space to cultivate a process that doesn’t threaten to wither and die from the radiation of algorithms. I was able to participate in events like #TendingTheThreshold and #AlliedMediaConference which allowed me to witness, learn from, and support the kind of real culture-making found over in the fertile margins where folx from the edges of worlds meet after being pushed away from the center of dominant belongings. I can commit hours of study and write long form essays on subjects largely eschewed and placed on our collective spiritual backburner, and this is a both a rank privilege and a real gift. I can turn around and support the Patreons of other black, brown, indigenous women, artists, podcasters, witches, and lifeway-makers whose work directly addresses the needs of people most versed in anti-oppression and healing justice modalities. Because of you, I’m a different kind of parent. My kids will be raised in ways that betray dominant culture because of you. In fact, they just walked in the door and I have to go. I could go on. But there’s a kind of un-spelling of capitalism that I feel is possible within these capitalist structures when we re-enchant the process of pushing money around in a communal way. No one is coming to save us. No charismatic leader will give us the systems we need. Individual enlightenment will not create community. We do it together, or not at all. #ThankYouPatrons https://www.instagram.com/p/BqYFLB_DDyq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xs1drl6o04zm

GRIEF + RAGE IN ASHLAND, OREGON . Part One {excerpt} of my reflection on #TendingTheThreshold . In my car is everyone’s luggage, a ukulele, a small harp, a large frame drum, various types of skulls, a few dozen black origami moths, a pile of bean pods from a trip to Hawaii six years ago, magnolia pods, random special leaves, vintage macrame pieces, a coyote face, a bag of corn, a book of matches from Ferguson, Missouri, a box of Kosher salt, some large plastic monstera leaves, a bag of silk roses, every rock or crystal in my house, poppy flower pods, mini gourds, at least 5 small pyramids of glass or resin, several pieces of fan coral, bags of feathers and tears cut from plastic to-go containers, a small pile of ocote pine, an entire sheepskin, a bin of fabrics, a Bolivian rug, three large strings of copper fairy lights, bins of shells and sea coral, sequoia pine cones, pouches of lavender and sesame seeds, no less than three lace tablecloths, a small bin of little toy animals and trees, several lace skulls, and a produce bag stuffed full of rose petals. Oh, and enough legal cannabis to keep us from becoming so brittle we forget who we are. I’m riding with the son of a Nigerian diplomat and clinical psychologist, a professional intuitive, a computer programmer, and a behavior change consultant blasting 80’s music as we careen down I-5 towards Ashland, Oregon where we have no idea what is about to occur. . Public #Patreon post at bit.ly/griefandrageinashland • link in bio

Processing and integrating all that went down up and sideways at #tendingthethreshold — not rushing to the “lessons” or the “gifts”— the sea is big enough to hold it all. Some scenes from the weekend at the @souwester thanks to @lindsiefeathers and @ziamccabe for hosting us. More from the music portion of the weekend next.... (at Sou Wester)

GIVEAWAY TIME! #TendingTheThreshold Conference is this weekend in Ashland, Oregon to explore together how to live, love, grieve and praise more deeply. To become more response-able to each other. To get free, together. . I have two tickets to giveaway to two lucky people — Just share this photo and tag me so I see it! I’ll draw a winner at random tomorrow (Thursday 5/24 at 9amPST). . Tickets and an affordable Livestream option available at >>tendingthethreshold.com<< (at Ashland, Oregon)

Look, it’s weird out there. And it’s getting weirder. Weird like WYRD. Like a turning. Apocalypse is baked-in [while there’s no real light source in dreams, minds can’t exist without the sun], but it’s not the end of the world. I mean, the word means more will be revealed. And if your world has already ended - more than once! Well, perhaps you were made for these times. We were born along a cultural subduction zone and if you feel the plates shifting along the fault lines in your very body, I am here for it. If you suspect whiteness has infected us beyond the point of redemption, join me in the cartoon graveyard. If you look like trash but feel like compost, come sit with me in this dustbin of history and tell me all about it. If the list of what you aren’t is a thousand times longer than what you are, snuggle up, buttercup. I know this hollow zone. If, on occasion, such as days that end in “Y,” you feel unmoored and profoundly homeless, there’s a lineage of People Who Really Fucking Tried with your name on it and it’s not too late to get on that list. If you’ve been discarded, thrown away, drawn down by birdsong or by veiled threat, if you’ve been reading the comments or paying attention, if you find learning in the face of contempt both impossible and necessary, come sit with me in this nest feathered with dead ideas and broken hearts, under a garland of tears, and tell me everything. We can make this trashscape beautiful if we stay with the trouble, if we midwife the zombied fictions unto their proper deaths, and if we do it together. We can thread a needle with our grief and praise and leave a legacy quilted with its color. So if you secretly wonder if you are needed by a world that both begat you and rejects you, it’s time for a radical togetherness. If you are earthen, made of this dustbody, small but mighty in your resolve to tunnel under these structures until they fall, I am with you in these sad pale times in the good dark loam. If you feel the turning, And you want to get weird, join me here: http://tendingthethreshold.com

Please check out my friend and teacher @desireeadaway’s #SusterSummer writing experience! I get to finally meet this esteemed educator at #TendingTheThreshold and I can hardly wait. 🖤LINK IN BIO🖤 . #Repost @desireeadaway ・・・ We don’t write for fame we write for freedom we write for survival, solidarity and sisterhood we know inequality is not by accident but by design we write to build and transform systems and in doing so we transform ourselves we write and reflect to be reborn. Join us as we write to liberate ourselves. Registration Opens May 1 Writing Prompts start June 1

CALLING ALL CHANGE-MAKERS, BRIDGE-BUILDERS & EDGE-DWELLERS This is an invitation to gather, play, and create together—a subversion of the status quo while stepping into the emerging new paradigm. Join us for 2+ days of connection with others who are committed to a more just and compassionate world. Learn embodiment practices and communication skills to help you hold your center and move into safe and brave space with the people around you. Deepen your understanding of what’s happening in our world and how we can creatively come together to face the predicaments of our times. Come away from the weekend with direct and actionable ways to create social change. Come join us on the threshold, we’re saving your seat in the circle. www.tendingthethreshold.com #tendingthethreshold #radicalattunementwork #gather

We are moving! It’s time to let go of this amazing space where so much magic and togetherness has been shared. I will need to shut down my Etsy shop on 5/1 to focus on the upcoming move and my work for #TendingTheThreshold conference so until then take 50% OFF EVERYTHING in my shop! . If you’ve been thinking about grabbing a print or a mini moon deck now is the time! #linkinbio . P.S. We are staying in Portland and the house is scheduled to go to market on 5/4. More soon! Thank you friends 🖤