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What a Year!

I am spending the last few hours of 2013 in Southern California, cuddled on a cot in the home of some of my best friends, awaiting the birth of their third baby. When she had baby #2, I was her doula,...

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My Snow-Covered Church

Several things have happened in the past couple of days that reminds me how little time we really have, and we never know when life will drastically change. A midwife friend I met when I was living in...

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Moving

I haven’t been writing much lately, for a multitude of reasons. My days have been filled with preparing to leave one home and establish another, as well as with work as a lactation consultant and with...

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The Risk It Took to Blossom

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. –Anaïs Nin Everywhere around me, I see trees and bushes and flowers taking risks. They have...

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First Things First

Today was my first day of my new job! Mt. Rainier greeted me as I got up and got ready: It was a rather anticlimactic start, to be honest. I won’t have any patient care until the middle of next week....

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Make Big Shadows

I haven’t written much since starting my new job because I really haven’t known what to say. I am in a place of such intensity, filled with great opportunities for learning and experience. Every day, I...

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Patience and Happiness

For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer’s night or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now – whenever we’re not looking. Surely you...

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Lost and Found

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest...

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Enough (A Year in Review)

It is hard for me to believe, but I have finished (survived!) my first year of practice as a nurse-midwife. In school, everyone told me that the first year is intense, and I expected that, but I had no...

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The Ocean Becomes the Drop

Today marks the end of our second day in Hinche. We got here safely despite a wild ride through the countryside and up the mountains. We all made it in one piece, which is more than I can say for other...

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The Soft Animal of Your Body

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about...

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The Word Beyond Home

what is the word beyond. home. after home. where is it. this word. why can i not remember how to say this thing. this feeling that is my whole body. –nayyirah waheed This is my first blog post this...

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Rage, and Be Kind

I wrote this as a Facebook status update this afternoon, trying to work through my body the grief and rage I feel at the murder of so many queer folks at Pulse in Orlando yesterday. I wanted to share...

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I wrote this poem the night I heard that a friend of mine was assaulted in a transphobic hate crime. In the gayest neighborhood in Seattle, one of the gayest cities in the world. Leaving a benefit...

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Greet Yourself Arriving

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the...

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At the End of Every Road

Fall came around again last week, as it does every year. I am usually sad to see summer go, especially in Seattle where summers are glorious days full of sunshine and fall means a return of the...

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Tell About It

pay attention. be astonished. tell about it. -mary oliver Words have been hard to come by lately. This year has been a transformative one for me in so many ways, and I have found it challenging to find...

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Between Earth and Sky

It’s been over a month since I last sat down to pour my thoughts into this container, and what a deeply moving month it has been. Each day has set before me an ever-changing landscape, and I have made...

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Born of Dust and Silence

Several months of silence have elapsed since I last showed up to pour my thoughts into this space. Much has been unfolding that is more personal than I am able to explore in this format at this time,...

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Live Everything

The crisp fall air bit my face as I made my way to my car this morning at the end of a very full call shift. As I drove down the hill from the hospital towards home, the morning sunlight danced with...

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