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The Grief House
May 18, 20231 min read
Good Witch
I am a bad witch my eye teeth are long top and bottom your weight in my mouth feels right and your squeaks I will shake you but not kill...
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The Grief House
Dec 17, 20221 min read
Stay
It's not passive, staying - with the hurt bits and fears; it's muscular, it burns calories. If you plan to stay, you need to eat a hearty...
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The Grief House
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Confianza
This year I was in Mexico for Dia De Los Muertos. Families cover graves with marigolds, set out fruit and soda, photos of prized...
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The Grief House
Oct 20, 20221 min read
Full (of want)
What if the ways through are also whole places? What if the ferrymen are also men, with shoes under their beds and a changing assortment...
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The Grief House
Sep 7, 20221 min read
Whole, Uninjured
Holy from PIE root *kailo- "whole, uninjured" I don't know how to keep things whole, uninjured. Most things I guard get sick and sicker....
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The Grief House
Aug 17, 20221 min read
The God Of Fucking Up
I need a God who fucks up, a fallible god. A god who leaves things out accidentally and when I trip and fall and become injured it is...
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The Grief House
Aug 1, 20222 min read
Seeking Magicians
Magic - from Old Persian magush: magician, from the Proto Indo European root magh: to be able. To have power. The one who is able: the...
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The Grief House
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Tangled In Myself
Much of the time, when I'm stuck, the thing I'm stuck in is me. I'm starting to suspect that's all there is for me to do this time...
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The Grief House
Jun 19, 20221 min read
An Argument For Elk
Their feet are wide. They're heavy. They will crush your rigid edges on their way to your good river. After downpours you will no longer...
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The Grief House
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Flyway
These days it seems to me my body is more like a flock of birds than I previously realized; making and unmaking itself, bound by some...
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The Grief House
Jun 19, 20221 min read
There Is No Matter
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be...
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The Grief House
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Love That's Given Up Flying
What should I do when I love doomed things? When I love dead and dying things, and tangled and mired things that are not about to become...
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The Grief House
Mar 8, 20221 min read
Two Hands Full of Loss
Accept is made from the root word kap, "to grasp," w hich made the word kapati, "two handfuls" in Sanskrit. Later it made kaptein "to...
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The Grief House
Feb 11, 20221 min read
The Pleasure of Your Presence
Last week I met my sister. I want you to see her. I want you to see us together, with our family. My family. Ours. I want you to look at...
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The Grief House
Dec 14, 20211 min read
Comfort - With Strength
com - with fort - strength This is my Aunt Ruth. She helped my mother raise me. By the time I was born her heart had...
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The Grief House
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Lost, Found
Here is my father, when he was young. He made my sister, Rosio., and me. I met him once, for a few days, when I was seven. I've never...
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The Grief House
Oct 16, 20211 min read
Building Playgrounds For Our Fear
The thing about my fear is that she's frightened and she's frightening. I catch her staring at me with her black eyes and, from time to...
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The Grief House
Aug 19, 20211 min read
Trust Plants- Wapato Island Farm
When Jenny Serna suggested I ask the plants for help - for my body and my heart - I felt unsure. Why would they help me? I pave things...
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The Grief House
Aug 19, 20212 min read
Sage on Trust
Hey, all! I’m Sage (@surge_lactose). This month’s Grief House theme is trust. This is Copper. She came to R&R New Options Equine when she...
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The Grief House
Aug 4, 20212 min read
I'm Trusting You
I've been thinking about that sentence. It could feel like a gift and rejoicing - I'm trusting you! I'm doing it! My heart is unclenched....
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