There are people that we enjoy. We enjoy doing things with them, we enjoy having them around, and it’s ok when they go as well. Like migratory birds we know they will be back again or we will join them and so there’s no angst, not worry, no regrets and no drive to do this…
The holidays can be a treacherous time for those who are actively creating a life that matches who they are becoming. These days are full of traditions and expectations, triggers and old behaviors, past acts and regrets, and people. There are people we want to see because we love them, but we wince thinking about…
When a pattern repeats in your life, it’s a good idea to examine that pattern. There’s something there for you to learn. But once the learning is done does the pattern automatically stop? No. That’s the conventional wisdom on the matter. That once you’ve learned the lesson you no longer need the pattern and so…
There are a lot of reasons why people make art. One of them is to have a deep conversation with themselves about whatever they are feeling at that moment in time or what is going on deep inside them. Another is to find out what they think/feel/mean about something. This is different from asking someone,…
The Day of the Dead is one of my most favorite holidays. It’s a celebration acknowledging the seasonal nature of human life, how nobody is getting out of embodiment alive, so to speak. 🙂 Instead of seeing this as a tragedy, as something to mourn and be afraid of or fight against which steals what…
Happy Halloween everyone! A great many people see today’s holiday as the day when they can dress up as someone or something else. It’s the day for costumes and makeup and creativity and fun. It’s a time of masks. What people don’t think about is that the lives they’ve constructed for themselves is actually the…
There is so much symbolism in vampires it has to be grouped into categories: sexual, destruction/consumption, transformation/assimilation, and parasite. At this point there is an entire genre of vampires as thinly veiled male sexuality out there and the leading example of them sparkle. The destruction/consumption category is what we would deem the classical monster variety. …
Plenty of people have confronted Frankenstein’s Monster in their lives. Anyone that has taken that pause and thought “How did that happen?” or “How did I end up here like this?” has stood in those shoes. Many of us think, like Dr. Frankenstein, that building a new life from the remnants of an old life…
For me some of the scariest bad things out there are zombies. Not that I have a problem with zombie movies or TV. Waking Dead, it’s all good. World War Z, I love the book. The movie was horrible but that wasn’t the fault of the zombies. Bad writing is bad writing and you can’t…
Are there werewolves among us? Yep. Do they change into a wolf form at the full moon and rampage around killing people? Not that I’m aware of. Werewolves are people who are habituated to drama. They don’t seem like it. They can seem like anybody else and that’s part of how they disarm and harm…