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1. Love is Love is Love is Love. 2. Jim Henson put a little light in my world that no one and nothing has ever been able to dim. 3. Me, telling Rowlf about everything. Yes. Even that. 4. My hero. 5. It's time to light the lights! 6. A monster and a dinosaur. 7. @johnnyg724 and I, muppetting amok. 8. Stories matter. That's the crux of all of this. Keep telling your stories, in whatever form works best for you. Use mops (raaaaggggg mopppps) if you have to, or ask a frog to help, but tell your stories. They matter. They matter. They matter. #youmatter #jimhensonexhibition #skirball #basicallyAMuppet #muppet #kermitthefrog #jimhenson
Love. Love. Love! #jimhensonexhibition #animal #annnnimmmaalllllll
Long Beach! This Friday! Come by @retroda_pastandpresent and say hey as I sign books! I miss your beautiful face! ---------------- more info: I'll be signing books at Retroda Past & Present on June 22nd, as part of the "4th Fridays on 4th Street" celebration . There'll be treats and drinks, and copies of both Dinosaur-Hearted (the new book!) and Sack Nasty: Prison Poetry. I'll bring my magic pen, so if you bought a book on Amazon, bring it, and I'll sign it. Books are $15 if you don't have one, but you don't have to buy one either-- I really do just wanna see your beautiful face for a second. It's been a long month! @4thstreetlb has a ton of festivities going on-- live music, art, henna tattoos, art displays, free cookies-- so once you're here, there should be plenty to enjoy. I hope you can make it, thank you for your support! #hyperlocal #iam4 #iam4localartists #4thstreetLB #retrorow #DinosaurHearted #thisIsLB #meettheauthor #ama #qanda #prison #felon #healer #grief #widow #survival #poetry #booksigning #authorsofig #longbeach #happeninginlongbeach
This @wintercroft mask is my new obsession. I was able to assemble it myself with a regular printer, regular paper, and glue. This was my rough draft, but I already love it so much. Can't wait to try again now that I know what to do. #papercraft #dinosaurs #trex #wintercroft #pdfprojects #wildlymodified #hobbiesArePERMA #SummerOfPERMA #basicallyADinosaur #instaRarasaur
I made it through a third of the #601SummerWorkshop before my hip made me call a quits. This is a picture of the top of my laptop, adorned with stickers from @jesshuttonart and @adamjk. The next slide was my unofficial workshop partner. The only rough-draft poem I finished is this one, and I'll save it here so I remember to fix it some day. I Love In Rhyme I am seven-years-old and my teacher is reading my story to my new classroom, my words to their first audience. She has the same birthday as myself. I know because we also shared the day with the first of school. We celebrated together on stage, and I held myself in her shadow and basked in song. I hate the spotlight but I love my teacher. This reading is the type of grown up reward that feels like punishment. Hers is the type of love that showers. I could die in it, drown in it. I am drowning. I am seven-years-old and sitting under my desk, waiting for it to be over, holding my little breath so that I will have still have something to breathe when this is all over. The classroom claps, they think it's helping. Theirs is the type of love that feels untrained. All that noise slaps against my skin, and my words look sideways at me where they are left, ignored, in favor of watching my tear-streaked face. I hold a little breath in and smile. My deskmate asks why my characters speak in rhyme, and I tell her it is because rhyme is softer. She doesn't understand. Softer than spotlights, softer than birthdays, softer than claps. Mine is the type of story that thinks it's poetry. Mine is the type of love you might not notice. It feels like rhyme, and holds its breath, and reaches up to your love, trying to make sense of it, even when you squeeze too hard and leave it bruised. #poetry #instapoetry #love #childhoodmemories #shy #staysoft #roughdrafts #workshops #poetryworkshop #instararasaur
Me, sitting down. Cross-legged. Without crippling pain or fear of ripping something. Just a little something I relearned in physical therapy. No big deal. #JustKidding #SuperBigDeal #ICouldOnlyHoldThePoseForAMinute #HealthProgressIsPERMA #SummerOfPERMA
I inherited that Superman-esque forehead hair curl. I used to go to ridiculous lengths to hold it back, but now that I think of it as my body trying to remember its origin story, the swoop bothers me a little less. Happy Father's Day, Dad. I know you wouldn't want to be resting, but I hope at least you're in peace. ♥️👼🏾 #DadIsMakingMyGoToSelfieFace #ThisPhotoIsSoVeryTexas #LaPetiteRawr #INeverLookInTheRightDirection #WhatsYourGrief #SummerOfPERMA #RememberingIsPERMA
"We are freaks. We are fragile. And we survived." @mortifiedshow was hilarious, vulnerable, and so full of self-forgiveness that tears are pouring from my heart and drowning me in beauty. If it comes to your area, go. If you have stuff to share, share it. There's a podcast and show and movie too! #mortified #lifeIsAmazing #YouAreAmazing
Congrats on your level up, @alanpassman ! May your year be filled with powerful poetry, generous audiences, well-behaved organs, hilarious memes, gentle adventures, & love, infinite love. Happy birthday!

Ra Avis

Ra lives and loves in Los Angeles and the internet, where frightfully wondrous things happen. She is a once-upon-a-time inmate, a reluctantly-optimistic widow, an exponential storyteller, and also basically a dinosaur. Her story is a long one, but the short version is she (probably) loves you.  @Rarasaur

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