Writing
Essays on the medicine hidden in the stories we're told to dismiss: romance novels read for what they're actually doing, astrology read for what it's asking, and the liminal ground between what was and what's becoming.
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The Voice Said Do the Podcast
A year ago I launched a podcast I was not ready to make. The instruction came in a plant medicine ceremony in late 2023, clear as anything: the voice, do the podcast. I had no subject, no equipment, and no idea what the show would be about. I still do not know sound editing, and you can hear it. Here is where Romancing the Threshold came from, and five episodes to start with if you are new.
Unfurling Toward Clarity
When we read a love story, we know the union is coming. The heroine has no idea it's even possible. We hold the whole arc while she stumbles through the middle of it, a vantage point we can never have over our own lives. Not seeing the path ahead isn't a failure. It's what a threshold feels like from the inside, because the crossing is making you into someone who doesn't exist yet, and she's the one who could see it. Clarity rarely arrives in a flash; it unfurls, and the unfurling is the mechanism, not the obstacle.
Desire and Doubt Are a Slow Burn
There's a story that's been niggling at me since last Fall, three characters who moved into my mind to live rent free until I write them down. This week I sat with them properly: a notebook, a couple of books on how to write a novel, and a card spread for each one to see past my own rational mind. What follows is the uncomfortable romance between desire and doubt, the way they sit on my shoulders like a pair of angels pulling in opposite directions. It's about wanting to write a novel and doubting I can, about the friction of prep and the temptation to stay there forever, and what a year of reading did to a woman finally reaching for the writer's chair.