All the stories.

I’ve been a collector of stories for as long as I can remember. Big stories, small stories, true stories, and not so true stories. I love the thread of intimacy, that for a short time, binds me to someone else. These threads that contract and expand between us, and dissolve as we separate. Sometimes, most times, they weave themselves into my brain. A golden remembrance that blinds me of the details, petals of joy that make me smile, seeds of inspiration, and hard bits of gravel paving my compassion. When I try to convey the alchemy that transpired, it falls flat. Jumping between emotions, facts, feelings, and descriptions, my words become a tangled mess that I try to sort out.  All I find are long pauses that don’t weave my words together any better than my first go.

This is my attempt to find the words and images to retell the stories that I collect. Sharing your stories and my own. Visual snippets that capture the wonder and amazement of the human condition.  

I want to hear your stories in any way that you want to share them. Let’s create our own collective effervescence as we experience our passions, discomforts, devotions, regrets, triumphs, embarrassments, resentments, adorations, glimpses of euphoria, and deep dives into ecstasy.

My Current Cravings

I easily fall in love with so many things. The effort and care put into creating any food or drink for my consumption, the sound of a horn instrument, trashy romance books with happy endings, old records that I listen to after years of forgetting, seemingly insignificant gifts that burst a well of joy inside me. But I’ve never been in love, in love. I have loved friends, family, pets, strangers, acquaintances, but romantic love eludes me. I’m not even sure I would recognize it if it were in front of me. That is why I covet stories about relationships. Meetings, endings, new love, old love, taboo love, nontraditional love, and heartbreak. Heartbreak calls to me the most because I do know heartbreak. Heartbreak over and over, that I rarely let myself fully experience or even acknowledge.

Come meet me in this space where your person says hello to my person, my person says hello to your person, and we sit, and we chat, and we create something that wasn’t there before.