Twenty years ago, I wrote and performed this short play for my graduate program community at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Immersed in postcolonial cultural anthropology studies and regular devastation of the foreign and domestic policies of the Bush administration, this piece emerged upon hearing a beloved professor say
A two billion year old protagonist took center stage in the interspecies alliance against fascism. Algae has been giving lessons in civil disobedience, in its refusal to reflect the exorbitant delusion of the president. I have not been able to get enough of the daily memes on the insubordinate pool
I recently overhauled my resume for the first time in many years. Immersed in the whole bullet point-ification process of turning my diverse life's work into legible, palatable, impressive sounding bites. All the churning discomfort of self-packaging in this very particular type of (sellable) package. With
This essay was originally published on social media on April 11, 2026. This week. These deeply imprinting days, for generations to come. My social media feed has been almost completely war atrocity and analysis + astronaut adoration and awe. Moon joy and Earth grief. The aftermath of bombs and the afterglow
This essay was originally posted on social media on April 2, 2026. I hate this rhetoric with my entire being. Hated it ever since the Bush Administration promised to bomb Afghanistan “back to the Stone Age” at the start of its “war on terror” that created an endless signifier + the
Turning fifty compelled me to turn away from society’s devaluation of age and seek alternate temporal kinship. Destination for a pro-aging pilgrimage? Ancient bristlecone pine trees. The eldest, Methuselah, over 4850 years, is the oldest living individual on Earth. A baby pinecone in 2824 BCE. At 10,000
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Warm greetings and welcome! The title and animating spirit of this blog space is "refuvescence". This is a neologism that I coined in 2017 in collaboration with the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, in a delightful process excavating its dimensions of meaning with artists Alicia Escott, Heidi Quante and