December 2010
5 posts
a dream as it touches ground
dear stacey,
My heart pounds fast and hard as I think about our new home. And not just for all the reasons you mentioned in your last letter—all the amazing and glorious reasons (yes!). But also for all of the things on the flip side of that coin. All of the things I feel hesitant to voice, but that play on repeat in my head.
At the same time that I have been wildly anticipating this moment, I...
our new home
dear mia,
the landlord picked us!!!!! we have a HOME!
in two weeks, moya and yolo will fly out to be with you and help you move into the new home. in a month, i will move to the bay and live with my friend patty who is making space in her life to do intergenerational skillshares with me around crip life skills (managing PAs, staying safe, running a home when i need others to do the physical...
strength to love, courage to hope
dear stacey,
I must be feeling better, this is the first urge to write I have had in days. I have been thinking more and more about Martin Luther King Jr.’s book, Strength to Love; about the courage and the strength it takes to love. I remember reading it for the first time, feeling it change me, and staring at the words, running them over and over in my mind and saying them slowly out loud,...
isolation as normal as breathing
Dear Mia,
I think about To the Other Side of Dreaming almost every second of the day, especially as I run through all the different scenarios of moving. Throw my things together, move next month and live in my friend’s home? Wait til Spring when the market opens up? Move the minute you find a home for us?
It has been four months since my younger sister (both best friend and someone who did...
the meeting place of truth and narrative
Dear Mia,
It’s been a long time since I’ve written you. Someone I care about, a friend who is also a disabled queer woman of color, told me recently that her work was invisibilized in this tumblr. I wanted to take the time needed to really hear her and reflect on ways I can be more thoughtful in how I engage with this tumblr and To the Other Side of Dreaming. (Fighting pace of...