Thanks to @maryanimaux 's generosity, I made rosemary face toner, rosemary-turmeric-lemon bath salts, rosemary garlic butter, rosemary mint satchets, and powdered rosemary spice blends for the pantry.
I am grateful for this beautiful human and the many harvests she brings to the world. 🌿🙏🏾💕 (Cute little bottle from @retroda_pastandpresent )
#LifeButMakeItRosemaryFlavored #meow #RosemaryEverything #DIY #friends
Tonight I went to a Galentine's Day party where the rosemary arrived in armfuls, and blessings were dished out in the form of spaghetti, and my dress was basically a disco ball. The women were treasures of hilarity and joy, and the space (as always) was made of light.
Thank you to those who made it out tonight, and to all the women (fabulous, fictional, or both) who inspired us to become who we are. 🙏🏾💕 #YouAreLoved #LoveLetters #GalentinesDay
Doing the work. 🙏🏾💕 Thank you to @unlockedopenmic for making a safe and welcome space for stories about #MassIncarceration.
#friends #featherskirts #forgiveness
#UnlckedPasadena #LockedInSolidarity 📸 by Mama Narrator
Happy Valentine's Day! 💕
#SoftPretzelsAndBigHearts #PretzelsAreHisFavoriteFood🤷🏾♀️ #squishxo
On a personal note, about last night, it was also overwhelming to be surrounded by reminders of the many ways our justice system fails us. There was an entire room featuring signboards and flyers from the hundreds of issues this team has fought over the years. In conversation, the involuntary sterilization of women came up-- that happened in the prison where I was, too. There was a sign about not being able to "get well in a cell", and I thought about my hip and the many injuries I was only able to help treat because #Mamasaur raised a reluctant bruja. There was a performance about a woman who saved birds at one of the prisons I went to, and it reminded me of that story I tell a lot, about the girls who asked me to steal kitchen food so they could save a bird. And the kids. We talked a lot about the kids I did time with... I've been sick most of this year, and sad most of this month, and out-of-harmony with myself for awhile now. But it's a sort of disharmonious vibration that occasionally hits a perfect note, and then goes back to creating a headache. It's like things are changing, and I'm being dragged along so quickly that the stories pinned to the bulletin board of my heart are just flying everywhere inside me, and some part of me just wants to let it go because it was so so long ago at this point.
But then I'm in a space where those stories really matter. And it's really important that people know why. And I find myself pinning these stories back into my gut and straight through the flesh of my tongue
It makes the headache start again, but I can barely feel it over the perfect notes I'm hearing. It makes it hard to know if I'm lost or found, free or forever caged.
It's a complex feeling, not easy to explain. I could use about 700 hugs right now and probably cocoa, but I don't know if that's because I'm exhausted and sad, or because I'm celebrating. "It's been so long now
Since you left.
Did you tell them
Hell is not a dream
And that you've been there?
Did you tell them?"
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
#IToldThem
#celebrateAnyway #movingOn #WhenGriefAndGrowthFeelTheSame #CareNotCages #NoMoreLockedDoors #InstaRarasaur
Last night's show with @criticalresistance was a beautiful thing. It was an honor to share the floor with #FightEvilWithPoetry poets, all of whom completely entranced the room. The performances of the night-- including the quiet but heavy presence of prison reform signboarding throughout the space-- was a true gift of sight. 💚
Like a Galentine's day celebration but with guys. Valenguy's celebration? Anyways, I love them and we ate pizza. 💕
#NationalPizzaDay #DinomiteValentines #mudsaurus
Tealight candle in a stainless steel condiment cup, over feathered skirt. Ya know, normal Thursday morning stuff.
My black tourmaline is the perfect size for a tiny dinosaur and that's how I know @homegirlporvida is clairsentient. Her mystery box was my Christmas gift to myself, and it was everything I hoped for and more. If crystals make you happy, connect with her!
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