fleeting shimmers of home
bones of the past become opalescence of the future present
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Blue Haze, Neon and Earl Grey (or Dreaming Rock-n-Roll)
I dreamed I was in a band last night. It’s been almost ten years since I’ve been on stage. I miss it a lot. I like group creative projects – I often need something larger than myself to continue, to finish work, and the group is more than “just me”. The dynamic is exhilarating, usually fun, sometimes frustrating – rarely boring. Though I haven’t been making music, I have been in a collaborative project for months now, and it is informing my solitary work in a good way (I’m painting again), and I am waking up with the desire to create almost over all else.
Read MoreMagic in the Air
I’m expecting a spaceship to pop into view any moment; I only need to pull the strings in my mind to see it.
Read MoreI smell the world
When I brush against you, I leave the powder of my existence on your sleeve, your finger.
Read MoreRamblings from the Lower East Side – Sex, Toys, and Window Displays – Year 2000
. . . let’s get it on deep dark and heavy. Think strong, powerful, vulnerable, wet, hot, juicy, vagina, magic wands, percussion, bliss, outrage(ous). Think what you want to stand for.
Read MoreSometimes we don’t initially recognize the beauty that is found in the strangest places.
“It was important for us not to work . . . ” Clayton Patterson from the documentary CAPTURED. Lower East Side – Tompkins Square Riot. I was there. It is still difficult to describe.
Read MoreWhat yoga does for me (blurb for the Flagstaff Yoga Festival Facebook Page)
It is hard to write a short blurb about yoga, because so many extraordinary situations led me to the practice. I did not come to yoga in an easy way, in fact, looking back, I came to it out of great difficulty and necessity. I realize that periods when I have fallen out of practice […]
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holly troy ~ sacred folly 