Urban Habitat

The Second Life of a Poem

Life’s been a slump as of late. Ths feeling of stuckness, of fighting up a hill that never ends when I can’t see the top… where to go from here? It’s unclear sometimes, even though I think I’m better than where I was a month or so ago. I have more projects, more things to do for joy than for some alterior purposeor just for money. Not that money is unimportant, or necessarily bad; it’s just that I want to do things for me, not for someone else’s dream to earn my keep, persay.

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  • ocean bones

    Would you believe I’ve found another skull on the beach? And this isn’t a remote beach in the off season. This is a beachgoers’ beach in the northeastern US, mid-season, not after any kind of storm. At first I joke that finding all these skulls means I’m cursed; however as a biologist, I sort of…

  • Local Plant Profile: Wineberry

    Thanks to our local herbalist Annie Fox and the herbalism walks our local parks host, I now know about the wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius). Running by a steep cliff overtaken by plants of all shapes and sizes, I’m reached out to by the thorny arms of the wineberry. Reddish-brown and so thorn-covered as to look like…

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  • my energetic hierarchy

    I’ve started back up with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy lately, in addition to my ERP therapy directly for OCD. And it’s made me think about where and how I spend my energy, what feels good to me, and what energizes me. Thinking about how I start my days, I’ve come up with an energy hierarchy for myself:…

  • species loneliness project

    A couple of buoying experiences over the last two days: I got to make a gorgeous geode tie-dye bandana & a tie-dyed vintage Social Distortion shirt I ran a ~10 minute mile, finally I had a doctor fight for me against my insurance company that didn’t want to pay for my meds anymore I reached…

  • the first day of summer

    It’s the first day of summer and despite a beautiful sun-filled sky, warm breezy weather, and cloudless blue, I’m not feeling up to snuff. I’m feeling lethargic, down, and although lonely I have no desire to go converse with folks. Days like this are…depressing. It’s like, I wake up looking out at a sunny morning…