Sin Addiction
Don’t I look like all the sins you’re going to commit tonight? Feeling flows through me the way water runs through the planet. What is sin but another you rippling along?
Home & Identity
Finding home & a sense of belonging within shifting identity politics of geography, region, language, politics, ideologies and culture.
Vulnerability Bait
Art showcases vulnerability, makes honesty accessible, believable, livable.
Make Way For The Flowers
I once sent flowers to a boyfriend. He called me desperate & cheated on me. It was toxic masculinity feeling so threatened by flowers that he felt he had to punish me.
Music Lessons With Lolita
“Eena, I sang for an hour today”, says Lolita to her imaginary friend.
Making Peace With Privilege
Privilege Guilt is the helplessness of having something one did not earn. But your self-flagellation doesn’t actually make heal a sick person.
Twenty-Twenty Vision
I wrote this post at the start of this year, having hit 40 and mistaking midlife crisis for twenty twenty vision. What a year 2020 turned out to be.
Harvest Festival
I’ve moved away from a lot of festivals steeped as they are in religion, the biggest reason for violence & turmoil in my country right now. I was talking to a stranger yesterday when I realised just that this is a good time to remember abundance. But it only feels…
Moonlight
I make the decision to let go of the validation & security they offer while I’m on this quest to discover who I am.
We All Need Validation
Why did validation turn into a bad word? Human beings have always been social by nature. This includes needing to feel seen, heard, acknowledged, cared about. Neediness is the excessive form of this, which yes, is toxic. But it’s not the needing that’s a problem, it’s the imbalance. We are…
Flying Solo
I choose to believe in flight, to want it and to reach for it. I choose to fly. I choose to fly solo.