Tag: writing
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Sometimes I wish… (starving artist’s prayer)
Sometimes I wish I could tell people how hard it is to be a full-time artist. How difficult it is to make good business decisions when the bank account is regularly hitting the last few remnants. Bills start being late consistently. Opportunities flood the gates but a clear path forward does not emerge. Sometimes I’m…
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Just call me Desire: origins of Zen Desire
The people I work with, my friends, people who look out for me and respect me and protect me, they just call me Desire. And they do it openly. And they don’t make me feel weird about it. They just treat it like my name. Because that’s what it is. A name. I am Desire…
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In the In-Between: autonomy, social anxiety, and visibility
I don’t know how electrolytes became a sign of affection, but here we are. I was so jazzed about January’s post, I wanted to write something really articulate and thought-out. But I’m exhausted of reaching for perfection. I just want to write. In the spirit of my new mantra, “close is enough is great,” I…
Rose of Memphis 