I’ve written a couple of internal blog posts about the meanings of colors in the inclusive Pride flag for my company’s LGBTQIA+ employee resource group. I liked the way this one about the color yellow turned out, so I thought I’d share it here. It’s Monday and the golden hour sunlight fills my apartment with …
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Visible Mending
A thread-full person, I am pulling, unraveling myself. In the ecstasy of unbecoming, The clarity of my own tangle Stripped away and strewn about, I revel. I delight. I draw Endless fiber from throat laughter Mending my own chaos with chaos, Unfurling the swirling mass of my own radiant Nothingness. Visible mending is the use …
Alien Feelings
I’m pulling out an older one for you all today. I’ve started a few other posts and nothing seems right. This one doesn’t either, but it’s the most finished. And sometimes you’ve just got to take the most finished thing and put it out there. I wrote this 3 years ago when I was just …
Loving
“It’s B.S. that ‘you have to love yourself before you can love someone else.’ Human beings actually learn how to love themselves from being well-loved in safe and trusted relationships. (A lot of us are re-learning how to let people care about us. The right people.)” My initial reaction to this post by Allyson Dinneen (a.k.a. @notesfromyourtherapist) …
Confluence
“The Maumee River does not begin. Formed out of the confluence of the St. Joseph River from the north, and the St. Marys River from the south, it is a continuation…” -Ryan Schnurr “In the Watershed: A Journey Down the Maumee River Convergence of three rivers / Convergence of three griefs… I wrote this in …
Becoming Bear
“My name is Amber, but I sometimes go by Bear. I’ll answer to both.” “Which one are you going by today?” I fumbled for an answer, my mind sorting through my patterns, too much to review in milliseconds. “Hmmmm…” A purchase of seconds. When do I decide to go by Bear? Lately, it’s been just …
Ambs the Bear 