( Warning: rescued rainbow boa, awesome lady. )

I spent yesterday participating as a photographer in a small people-and-animals portrait workshop run by freaking kylecassidy, on a blueberry farm two fantastic people are trying to save, with and for a nascent snake rescue/rehabilitation project run by a pair of offbeat teenage twin girls who happen to live around the corner from the house I grew up in, with ( Read more... )

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A reminder to myself I find useful now and then, and the biggest, certainly not easiest, thing I've learned from Feri-flavoured folks over the years is simply encouraging everyone to shine. Even oneself. Especially oneself, because that can be the hardest. Life is not a zero-sum game. It's a massively multiplayer collaborative game of creative ( Read more... )

As I understand there is no point in talking about the Baltimore Rock Opera Society's Valhella: The Ragnarokkoperetta to get my more geographically distant friends out to see this particular show, as they've sold out of everything online for the rest of their run and have but the hope of at-the-door ticket sales remaining for this coming weekend. ( Read more... )

When all else goes wrong, dance in the living room. It always, always helps.

As a point of note, I am proudly directly descended from two college dropout hippies who spent much of their youth marching on Washington, protesting the Vietnam war and volunteering for long-shot political candidates they truly believed in (and both of whom eventually lost their drive when the tide rolled back, and have moved on to quite plain ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago when entirely too many things were in flux, podisodd and I realised that a large part of our stressed-out, worn-out crappiness was that, while we enjoy the mad festivals and weekends with a full house of guests that so often fill our lives, we very rarely get (or take, or make) a chance to do anything interesting alone together. This went ( Read more... )