The darkness of “Possimism” comes easily to me, effortlessly taking up any space I don’t consciously defend with the colorful shield of “The Sun Hasn’t Left“ The sentiments of those two songs are always at war in my mind. I used DALL-E to create […]
Tag: mental health
Coming Down the Mountain
Running down a mountain on a wilderness trail can go one of two ways: It can be exhilarating and fun, almost like you’re flying. There can be moments when you feel more alive and connected to your body and to the world than you’ve […]
Sex Can(‘t) Be Everything: Wilderness
Author’s Note I wrote this in the Spring of 2021. Another life, it seems. Life in Bumblefuck has its challenges. The West End of Clallam County is one of the most distant, most sparsely populated regions of western Washington that a person can call […]
Sex Can(‘t) Be Everything: Music
If you were to tell me that I had to do without every invention of humankind save one, then ask me to choose what that invention would be, I would choose music. Not very practical, I know, but those sorts of hypotheticals aren’t well-suited […]
Sex Can(‘t) Be Everything: Running
I spend a lot of time in my head. I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember, the model of the intelligent introvert: quiet, almost constantly daydreaming, my face buried in a book or lost in my own world(s) while I […]
