The world itself has been turned backwards and head over heels, so it feels appropriate to switch things up and break the fourth wall this week. Some weeks were more on point than others, but my overall theme has been providing vignettes that indicate their mythology somewhere outside of the reality in which we live--be they subtle suggestions of ( Read more... )

I set a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale on the bar and the bartender opens it for me. I am feeling good; I can relax--it's Friday and I'm watching my husband's band play. Next thing I know a person plops next to me. I vaguely recognize him as someone my husband knows. Within moments, he is talking my ear off. A half hour later, he knows nothing about ( Read more... )

Kori's Guide to Escaping the Echo Chamber

Step 1: Acknowledge the Echo Chamber
Recongition is the first crucial step of escaping the Echo Chamber. Does it exist? Even if we don't understand it, can we acknowledge the existence of the Echo Chamber, as it pertains to the chains of our human nature influencing that which drives our political decision ( Read more... )

Elle came into the world hungry. She was not red-faced and screaming for air, for milk, for sustenance-- rather, she had two eyes wide like bottomless pits eating up the sudden light. This was not a moment she would remember in her conscious mind, but one that informed her subconscious for the rest of her life. In that brief transition into this ( Read more... )

I wasnt sure I was going to do this, but I am going to give Second Chance Idol a shot. A dear friend who supported my work died the day I quit, and I'm still feeling out of sorts, but I'm going to try.

I'm out. This is my sacrifice entry. I just couldn't get to it this week; I am uninspired and out of time. I guess it fits the failure theme pretty well!

But in the mud and scum of things,
there always, always something sings
--Ralph Waldo EmersonFlood season typically brings a bout of mild to serious anxiety to those who live around the creeks. A flooded bank was a pain to manage, so folks stay with four crossed fingers, hoping not to see the creek rise. This creek in particular is more mud than ( Read more... )

In the land of the living, wild geese are known to be rather aggressive. It is not uncommon to spot a person enjoying a lovely day by a lake suddenly interrupted by a wild goose performing the avian equivalence of a territorial beating of the chest.

It is not common knowledge, however, that the wild goose is known to be even more aggressive than ( Read more... )

"One two three, one two three, one two three" and then a pinch. He feels nothing ( Read more... )

A Very Honest Post, A Love LetterNever wanting to be without a hand to hold, I tried everything. The innocent, the dangerous, the sure-footed, the broken, the walking dead-- my heart was tossed to anyone who could catch it on a string of hope that would eventually find its way back into my chest frayed, burned, and limp ( Read more... )