reply to Willow's post
food
Food is a big deal for me. I think it's one of the earliest sense memories we learn (I know it's smell but that proves my point) I'm sure I can ask you to name a food that brings back childhood and that memory will flood back viscerally. For me, it's jelly roll eggs and little pancakes.
Food can be comforting, healing, nurturing,sexy, transcending..... or miserable, horrifying, nightmarish and ghastly.....but it makes an impact.
I want to write about it and experience it all.
travel
When I havent' travelled in a while I start to feel....complacent.....in a rut... I feel like travel keeps up open to new things while it reminds us who we are. Something about it gives me a vitallity that I don't experience when I'm stuck in one place to long. That being said.. I also very much need a home....a foundation...my own home base to come back to.
cosmopolitan
I like the description..... I like feeling like I can be comfortable anywhere...I like being a woman of the world....not bound by culture, region, religion.....I am grateful I have traveled so much and lived in such different communities around the country.
full of feeling
I wouldn't have it any other way.I am grateful I have learned to also communicate about it more successfully over the years. My tears don't betray my strength or weaken me.....nor does my elation make me frivolous. People have used this fact about me to be predatory..or to try and tear me down... I am learning to refuse them any space or power or breath in my world.
done more in one life than I thought possible
I am a jack of all trades,.....master of one....but I am also sure that I love all of my experiences....and I look forward to more. I am writing the book... I need a good, patient editor. I enjoy that fact that I can travel within many worlds and cultures...but I am learning as well that I deserve to live in the circles in which I was raised. I don't need to apologise for it or hide it....and I should own it more.
Food is a big deal for me. I think it's one of the earliest sense memories we learn (I know it's smell but that proves my point) I'm sure I can ask you to name a food that brings back childhood and that memory will flood back viscerally. For me, it's jelly roll eggs and little pancakes.
Food can be comforting, healing, nurturing,sexy, transcending..... or miserable, horrifying, nightmarish and ghastly.....but it makes an impact.
I want to write about it and experience it all.
travel
When I havent' travelled in a while I start to feel....complacent.....in a rut... I feel like travel keeps up open to new things while it reminds us who we are. Something about it gives me a vitallity that I don't experience when I'm stuck in one place to long. That being said.. I also very much need a home....a foundation...my own home base to come back to.
cosmopolitan
I like the description..... I like feeling like I can be comfortable anywhere...I like being a woman of the world....not bound by culture, region, religion.....I am grateful I have traveled so much and lived in such different communities around the country.
full of feeling
I wouldn't have it any other way.I am grateful I have learned to also communicate about it more successfully over the years. My tears don't betray my strength or weaken me.....nor does my elation make me frivolous. People have used this fact about me to be predatory..or to try and tear me down... I am learning to refuse them any space or power or breath in my world.
done more in one life than I thought possible
I am a jack of all trades,.....master of one....but I am also sure that I love all of my experiences....and I look forward to more. I am writing the book... I need a good, patient editor. I enjoy that fact that I can travel within many worlds and cultures...but I am learning as well that I deserve to live in the circles in which I was raised. I don't need to apologise for it or hide it....and I should own it more.