Stories From The Fire and The Thread
The Fire and The Thread follows what happened when remembering who I am was no longer enough,
and that truth began asking something of the way I actually lived.
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Stories from The Fire and The Thread are drawn from that journey.
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They are stories of the body, identity, loss, receiving, and the difficult work of staying with myself
when old ways of living no longer held.
EXPLORE STORIES FROM THE FIRE AND THE THREAD
When I Stopped Asking to Be Seen
For years, I believed that being understood was part of being loved. One conversation showed me how much of myself I had been leaving behind in order to preserve connection.
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The First Receiving
I spent years creating things meant to offer others warmth, safety, and the feeling of being held. It took a night in the hospital for me to discover what happened when I finally let the medicine I made for others reach me.
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I'm Done
I entered ceremony asking for my body to heal. Twelve hours later, I’m done meant something else entirely: I was done pushing myself to the edge and calling survival strength.
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The Real Master Work
In my twenties, I wrote that my life would be my greatest work of art. More than fifty years later, I began to understand that the masterpiece was the life that made everything else.
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