Author: inkinherveins
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A year is a minute and an eternity
One year ago, I started writing the newsletter for the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative. At the time, I was still adjuncting for the college, though I had made the decision to leave at the end of the semester. The Narrow Gauge was already a place I loved to go. I’d browse for books, I’d chat…
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No Longer Numb
ramblings on pain and grief… My second cousin left the world through suicide a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t know him well, but he was such a sweet baby, a sweet teenager, a sweet and kind young man, though he struggled with anger and depression for a large part of his life. His family…
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post-retreat reflections: expressing love
For the past several months, I’ve been working with a great group of people to offer a free mindfulness retreat for residents of the San Luis Valley. We had our first planning meeting at the end of August, and the retreat happened on Saturday, January 20th. I’m in the post-retreat, “I-worked-for-a-while-on-a-big-thing-and-now-it’s-over-and-I-feel-a-little- relieved-a-little-tired-a-little-lost-about-what-to-do -next” haze, still,…
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New Year’s Resolutions
I write the newsletter for the indie bookstore where I work, and as I penned the message for this month, I realized I want to share it here, too. I’ve wanted to say something about the passage of time, but have only just been able to put the thoughts into words. The seed is in…
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Ontological Whiplash
It started as an Instagram post, a story I wrote on November 26th. It’s some kind of whiplash to have to go on about life as normal when absolutely nothing is normal. Extreme violence around the globe, mass death, mass murder, mass poverty, mass climate events… and holiday sales and promoting friends’ makers markets and…
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Work-in-progress
December 4th, already. In September, I contemplated whether to participate in National Novel Writing Month in November. I skipped it last year, mostly because I was swamped with teaching work, but also because I felt tapped, and wasn’t at all sure what to write. With 200,000+ words written towards a memoir, and 50,000 words of…
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Making Pastry
I keep thinking about my great-grandmother. She had a reputation for her foul temper, her abruptness, and her bitterness. My mother would finish another story about how dreadful my great-grandmother was, and then say, in an off-hand sort of way, “You’re a lot like her.” I keep thinking about my great-grandmother, her name Marie Leischter,…
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Mindfulness Retreat Fundraising
Hey all! I’m currently working with a great team of mindfulness practitioners to offer a free, day-long mindfulness retreat here in the San Luis Valley. As you all know, if you’ve been reading my blog for a minute, yoga and other mindfulness practices have been a great help to me in my life, as I…
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honoring memories
The first thing I think of, when Jeremy Williams (aka Will Wizard) comes to my mind, are his persona poems. I remember his Harley Quinn, particularly. I remember his ability to do voices of almost any character you could name. But not just their voices. He understood the drive behind each one, he understood their…
Ink and Vein 