Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• Journal: Grants & Such

  I recently decided to file for a grant, specifically designed for formerly-incarcerated artists. Because of my recent brain damage, I've had to go slowly with... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• 2019: Erosion

  Earlier this year, I peed in a bedpan, one floral hospital curtain away from my boyfriend. He turned the water on the sink for me, in case it helped.... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gratitude

  I am thankful for your life- the way it leads when it is necessary and follows when it is time, and lifts up when the beacon needs to be brightest. I am thankfu... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal: Transition

  I haven't known what to post lately. Every glimpse I would normally share seems inauthentic because everything is so transitional right now... so fluid. If I... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rainbow Vision

  When you love the people in your world, a little rainbow burrows in your eyes and it changes the way you see every word, every world. Some days you might love... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moon Mirror

  Every so often: the comfort when a silent sun falls on you. You unload in the noiseless daylight. Empty your heart of what angers. Shake your wrists free of wha... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal: Blue Chip

  I write a lot about water lately, and my therapist thinks that means something, but sometimes I just want to work with a certain kind of clay. It's already made... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal: Kicking and Breathing

  I say I'm sleeping like a drunk puppy lately, and the metaphor tastes right even though it doesn't actually make any sense. On Sunday, I made my vision board fo... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Grief: Uncle Rudy

  When Rudy was home, there was music. Foot-stomping, hand-clapping, lounge-crooning, folk-lilting, country-dancing, all-type music. I don't remember much more.... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Healing: Forms

  And the form asks if I'm having headaches. I think about my taffy brain, how it's been pulled and twisted and stretched beyond reckoning. It's a wonder that it... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Memory: Sand Pear

  Behind the well on our farm, beside the barn, before the fence. It is a nook, if a farmland has nooks, a forgotten space where rocks sit heavy like they fell... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal: a Tantrum

  When I say that things are up and down, this post represents the down. If you're not up to it, biggest hugs, skip it with my love. xo. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Milestone: i Did This

  

  This year, my roommate and I decided to make a small collection of vintage-inspired Long Beach t-shirts. Today, we launched them into the world! 🎉 I... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poetry: Stubborn

  They think me boneless,I yield so easy.They think me skinless:I talk so white.They think me tender,home-grown prey.They think me chicken:They could be... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Healing: Kindness

  The little girl bikes down the beach ramp at full speed. I am limping towards her with my cane, from the opposite end of the ramp. She skids to a stop, and walk... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blog Chitchat

  Today for NanoPoblano, I decided to do some blog maintenance. First, I changed the theme. Do you like it? I loved the older one because it was so clean, but it... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• ★

  

  "This week, try to remember the kindest, bravest, most loving you've ever been. You're still every bit as brave as you were then, and every bit as good." -... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Writing to a Season

  

  "Title," by Oliver Baez Bendorf A Season not a Pot "My difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot." - Virginia Woolf, letter to Ethel... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Anything but a Woman

  I wanna man whomakes me feel like a wom- no, a wom-no, no, a wom-bat,a wombat! descended from giants,champion digger. He should knowI can tunnel... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Goodbye from Space

  

  "I know you feel like you're aging too fast, but at least you know I'll always be older than you." Today made a liar of Dave. Today I am older than him. Today... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2019 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION