i have been welcomed into a house --an impromptu family-- under granite boulders in prescott, arizona ( Read more... )

where do i end and new orleans begins? how can i work to empower people who are oppressed when i don't feel empowered myself (in fact, often feeling helpless), despite my being white and from a middle class background? is it necessary to have my own shit together before venturing out like this, even when this struggle seems so urgent? do i need to ( Read more... )

evening falls over a beautiful old shotgun house right off esplanade. it's a porch-sitting kinda night. i'm with hope and craig, my housemates danny and matt, matt's visiting father. all of us shiny from the humidity of the new orleans air. there are two working burners in our kitchen, five of us trying to cook dinner at once under the enormous ( Read more... )

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hey. i always get anxious right before embarking on some sort of travel and i start picturing worst case scenarios. tomorrow i leave for new orleans, picking up two rideshares and i don't know whether they drive or not, i don't know whether i'll have to do all 20 hours of driving myself. i don't know whether i'll be sleeping in a hostel or a car ( Read more... )

could not be happier right now ( Read more... )

dear amtrak ( Read more... )

the state of washington looks and smells and feels so alive (it being a temperate rainforest and whatnot) and it's making me feel very alive. this morning i woke up in the middle of cascade mountains rising out of a thick mist. i uncrumpled myself from the train-seat sleeping position and glued my face to the window. i have no words to describe it ( Read more... )

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in six hours i will be on a bus to asheville, north carolina. for the last few days i've felt, at once, both overjoyed and incredibly sad. i don't think that this is contradictory in any way. there is an actual physical manifestation, like a weight inside my chest-- sad to leave the beautiful people that i've connected with, glad to know that i ( Read more... )