Reshaping Reality

July 6, 2021

My Open Letter to City Designers

I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past year, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I (and others) wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the letters are verbatim Continue reading

activism, Author, disability, Race, transgender

ableism, access, accessibility, Accessible Cities, disability, disability justice, Disability Pride, Fight Ableism, Homelessness, No More Ableism
November 27, 2017

Review of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisen

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I first started this book, the use of second-person as a narrative surprised me, but as the story wove its way through the characters’ lives, I found a fascinating use of third person and second person that gave the narrative a gorgeous Continue reading

Books, Reviews, Writing

apocalyptic fiction, Characters, complex storyline, diversity, earthquakes, fantasy, immersive narrative
November 24, 2017

Journey

Journey into the darkness, that leeches the soul of light, engulfs with chasms, insurmountable at first. But in all journeys, the light carves out its path, unleashes its torrent — bathes us all in radiance. So clothe oneself and all one sees with unconditional love — allow the beams to reverberate and pulse like waves Continue reading

Author, Poetry, Writing

fractal, fractal art, journey, life, light, poetry, PTSD, truth
November 15, 2017

Review: Arrival

Review: Arrival I mean to post this a few months ago after my third watch of the movie, but time got away from me, so I post it now. This movie usurped Interstellar’s place as my favorite movie ever. Read below for my review. It is spoiler free. Amy Adams stars as Dr Louise Banks, Continue reading

Aliens, Linguistics, Reviews
October 6, 2017

Updates and Thoughts on Love, Empathy, and Accountability

I feel like I’ve been ill a long time. I am working on managing my C-PTSD in a healthy way as well as slowly working through my healing. But I also face a growing weakness in my right side that randomly seems to turn into numbness and painful tingling or abdominal pain. As for what Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Writing

accountability, despair, empathy, fear, hope, illness, life, love, social justice, truth
September 11, 2017

Poetry: Metaphorical Existence

Note that I wrote this poem to reflect on how my trauma manifested. I am trying to heal from the conditioning of past trauma by recognizing the problem and how I am more then my trauma and PTSD. … The inception of the distorted, forgotten song — howls through my ear-drums, tears my synapses until Continue reading

Writing
August 14, 2017

Important Truths We Must Face

I am a pacifist at heart. However, not all ideologies and opinions are equal and okay to freely express, and sometimes one must take a stand even if it means risking it all to fight against hateful ideologies such as neo-Nazism and white supremacy. I’d like to hope we can defeat such destructive ideologies, bills/laws, Continue reading

Author, Blogging, Feminism, Race, Writing

anti-racism, charlottesville, equality, equity, love, neo-nazi, Race, racism, social justice, truth, white supremacy
July 29, 2017

Approaches to Discussion

This idea for a post has been haunting me for some time, but it’s taken me quite awhile to bring it together coherently enough to compose my ideas on paper. So, after all this thinking, researching, and meditating, I’m going to complete this and release it into the wilds of the Internet. I hope it Continue reading

Author, Blogging, Feminism, History, Philosophy

boundaries, discussion, emotional intelligence, facts, free speech, humanity, opinions, Respect, stakes, validity of arguments
July 9, 2017

In regards to character descriptions

A question asked in the Legendfire Writing Critique Forum I help moderate focused on clothing aspects of character descriptions. My reply on the thread expanded that to the wider viewpoint of how clothing and the overall outward presentation of a character can differ based on culture and ethnicity and/or race and influence how the character Continue reading

Characters, Feminism, Writing

character, character description, intersectionality, outward presentation, personality, race in writing, whitewashing
June 18, 2017

Art: Fractals — My Process

Note: I’ve been off and on ill, so am starting to get back on my feet. I hope to start regularly posting again soon. Without further ado, here’s a piece I’ve been working on lately. I have posted with my poetry fractals I created. So I wanted to go over a bit on how I Continue reading

Art, Author

abstract, art, art process, fractal, fractal art
May 14, 2017

Music: Improvisations on Keyboard

I often will sit down at my keyboard and improvise songs. I tend toward minor keys because I enjoy their emotive power. Relative minor often has a lighter, sadder sound than harmonic minor, and it is fun to modulate between the two types of minor keys. I also will modulate to a major key for Continue reading

Author, Music