For everyone charting my project in progress, Dreams and Conversations, you know it has been a journey of changing and tweaking the particulars. Staying to true to my engagement in art making as an active dialogue I’m slowly incorporating the Dreams into my experience of Occupy Wall Street, and of course, my performance poetry and [...]
Last night the barricades came down from Zuccotti Park due to some good work by the ACLU and core activists. While I wandered out of some meetings at Charlotte’s Place, I happened upon the first barricades coming down. It was kind of magical to be there, before the word got out, before anyone really knew [...]
A little over a year ago, the Phoenix myth came to live with me. I saw her in Buddhist texts and in poems on tea. In the wings of the Phoenix myth, across cultures, was a sense of depth: the Phoenix was calling me to really accept life’s need to end and renew itself. In [...]
I walked up the stairs this morning, eating a toasted everything bagel. I sat down by the Eastern barricades. Immediately, I was offered money. “Hey, we’ve got free money in a box.” I smiled, said no thanks and then we, the guy and the serene girl to his right, we began to talk. In this [...]
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