By the Faultlines

January 1, 2023

2022 – In Defense of the Mundane

There’s nothing wrong with starting things and not ending them. It’s nice to cross off some things from the list, but isn’t the world a shuffle and reshuffling of goals and tasks — something about physics and laws and how nothing is created nor destroyed? I’m thinking about transcendence. I’m thinking about the painstaking activities […]

writing exercise

2022, 2023, astrology, calendars, goal-setting, job search, mundane, new year, organizers, planners, work
January 13, 2022

Jupiter conjunct natal moon in Pisces

1. What’s it like having a mother who doesn’t make you a catch basin for her internal suffering?What’s it like having a mother who doesn’t aim to hurt you?What’s it like having a mother?What’s a mother? 2. Gene said that your heart is not broken, it is just growing. How big my heart must be […]

television, writing exercise

family of origin
November 22, 2021

We were something, don’t you think so?

And I was thinking on the drive down,Any time now,he’s gonna say it’s love. You never called it what it was. Except I think, I’ve always known you will never say it. Though we both knew what it was. Check the pulse and come back swearingit’s the same Was it only once that you talked […]

music, writing exercise

all too well, all too well 10 minute version, dreams, hong kong, nevada, relationships, taylor swift