No comment. Marian Devotion My mother is not a club, neither the exclusive kind nor the sort men wield to beat their women into tiny boxes of silent femininity. My mother is the measure of what no man can be without grace, what all men could be if emptied of judgment and imbued with the … Read more…
I’ve been wondering how to share my recent poetry without my former community on DeviantArt, and it occurred to me tonight that I’ve been neglecting this blog completely! This is where I used to share everything! So here I am again. To get started, I’ll share some poems I was thinking about today. I wrote … Read more…
Original artist statement for the Midsommar Crowns show at the Bellefonte Art Museum, February 2022. A brief reflection follows! In the 2019 horror film Midsommar, there’s a striking emotional core in which the heroine Dani’s emotional vulnerability is treated as a burden and outright annoyance by her emotionally stunted, indecisive, and indifferent boyfriend, for whom she … Read more…
It’s a common belief — or at least a very common, unquestioned association — that goodness is boring, and evil is fun. This is especially the case when we think about fictional characters, but it also extends to life. I’d rather go to hell because people in hell are more interesting, I’ve heard. This has always … Read more…
However well-meant it is, please do not tell a heartbroken person that someone who hurt them, someone they loved, is “not worth their tears.” First of all, you are in effect disrespecting their depth of feeling.* Their tears say more about their heart than anyone else’s, and your perceived “worthiness” of the person who hurt them is … Read more…