I’m an artist and an art doula.

I’m on the artistic board of Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theater Co.

We make theater, in nature, for kids and families. We also teach kids about playwriting and soon we’ll host fireside storytimes.

The future is going to require humans, young and old, to recognize the work of plot lines and archetypes in everyday life. It feels good to hold space for this.

I’m almost a couple of decades into co-hosting a new works reflection group.

Each member gets 20 minutes to be witnessed by the group. Members have used their turns to improvise performances, tell new scripted stories, muse on hunches or new ideas, talk about their day, or just not know what to say or do.

The group listens very closely to words, qualities of breath, somatic states, motifs, rhythms, images, and their own internal states while listening.

Then whose-ever turn it was requests the sort of feedback which would be useful (including none at all) and receives reflections from the group according to their request.

This work has helped me develop a deep relationship with not-knowing-as-a-grace, and it has taught me how to consciously listen on many channels at once. It has taught me how to sensitively articulate my experience of something just being born.

I participate in a Dream Circle.

Martha Crawford hosts it. The participants zoom in from all over the world, and we take turns sharing and reflecting on each other’s dreams. It is grounding like WHOAH, and absolutely lines up the tiny and the huge.

I make metal talismans

Mostly I’m motivated by dreams, gratitude for relationships (with specific crows, specific trees, and specific beaches) and the desire to let my hands work while my mind wanders. Also the desire to send objects a little way into the future.

Sometimes I’m motivated by the relationships between the different parts of my awareness. I make myself jewelry-as-mnemonics to help me remember mundane things, as well as to help me track when I’ve traveled in and out of modes of consciousness.

I make metal hair accessories.

I kept having dreams that it was time to pack up, it was time to migrate, and I had to decide on the most essential items to put in my one bag.

I also kept craving a gig which would allow me to

• work flexible hours (so I could be available for other art-making)

• silently

• while offering something useful and beautiful

• which I could produce even within the rhythms of capitalism.

This little business is a sweet spot, the overlap of all those desires and hunches. My most popular items are the headbands that come in your size and form to the exact shape of your particular head. When it’s time to pack up and migrate, you probably won’t even need to deliberate about putting it in your bag because it will already be on your body.

I study tarot

DANG but these images are useful!!

I learn about, and love, Felix the Crow

I’m pretty sure I met him when he was a baby. He comes for visits and lets me know when my dog is tryna sneak out into the wide world. Ask me about crows. Ask me about them.