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June 4, 2007
it's like this
every so often she just shows up
either in my brain or my computer or my dreams
and there is this just after sunset by the ocean kind of warmth and mystery and comfort of the mystery holding everything even as its scary too
and elly
well
she meets me there
and we know all the same stuff in different ways
and even though we barely hang out ever
i've got her back like no kind of joke
man
ha
January 20, 2006
elly makes delightful squeaks and squeals if you snuffle her ears
she is the kind of friend who will save you from all-night parties with a soft bed
and send you exactly what you want for your birthday
she is not afraid to experience and express all the poignancy in the universe
and she likes the idea of tea more than she actually likes drinking it
i love elly!!!!!!! xox
March 11, 2005
I have more quotes from elly in my random signature list than from any other source. She has insight, she is my hero.
February 28, 2005
Elly is indeed a visionary and an unrepentant sleeper. She is classic San Francisco, rather than neuvo. By this I mean she has the old spirit of the city and yet she is still very young, youthful and has the energy to share it. Having slain The Man, she is now working for a good cause in her day job. On her journal site she has given us insight and wisdom for years - I remember some of the ideas, thoughts, lines. I've written song lyrics about her, but I'm waiting until we are much older to show her.
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full moon in libra shining down in on san francisco.

7 months since i got home from india.

fell asleep into an intense nap after dinner. woke up groggy, lonesome, texted tamera: "what doing?" and tottered across the street for tea and sleepy hugs and squinting awake and laying-on-the-bed talks about BEING THE SAME about so many things. i'm so grateful that i moved across the street from that gorgeous gnome elf creature who totally understands so much. and who is apparently making me a hat right now!?!

life has been really really busy, my work has picked up and i spend my days in phone calls and emails and busy-ness. i really like it. spring is happening and i have begun to poke my head out of the rough patch of hibernation and sadness i just went through. i have started to see more people and meet more people.

i honestly cannot believe how many layers of healing that i've had to get through since the spectacular dissolution of my last relationship and all of the changes that have happened since then too. i haven't even been consciously working through anything for most of it. like, i haven't been identifying issues and doing the mental work to unravel them, which is my usual mode of dealing. instead, it's just been a daze and a lot of mindless and numb flailing about. and every month that passes i look back at the previous month and realize how much more a shocked fog i was in before. and before and before. i'm slowly slowly slowly waking up from something.

i really am starting to feel whole again, and like i can remember now what sort of love i want to give and receive. i'm no longer having a lot of those weird numb emotions that you know are just masking other, deeper horrors. i'm still hurting but i feel like i've found the center of it and it's authentically what i should be hurting about. i am thawing out.

as the thaw happens i look back on the past few months and feel regret for being so unskillful with people. i just didn't have the capacity. i don't think i was AWFUL but i certainly wasn't present or conscious most of the time. i needed everything that was given to me and i'm so fucking grateful for it.

in other news... i have a new bike! i've been riding it around and getting to know the brakes and the pedals that actually go backwards. it makes me SO HAPPY. also, tomorrow i shall attend the anarchist bookfair with tamera and hear diane diprima read, yaaay! i have been working my butt off on geek work and also making lots of progress with my saturnian task of Getting My Shit Together. i'm a flurry of organizing life's paperwork. taxes and appointments and phone calls. stuff is alright, really.

Sat, March 22, 2008 - 2:46 AM permalink
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here is a photo of me in a weird contortion trying to document that i altered this dress to make it shorter & more low cut.

Sun, February 17, 2008 - 11:46 PM permalink
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