It’s interesting living in a macho culture. After living in Portland, where skinny man-boys wear dresses and makeup, living in a Latin culture with traditional machismo stereotypes has allowed me to revisit what masculinity means. The perils of Macho. I was surprised to hear something said offhand by a parent here in [...]
Taos Gibson MacTavish Huntress. Born on January 8, 2012 at 11:11 am. 7 lbs, 7 ounces, 20 inches long. Taos @ 6 hours old. Taos was born at home, in an unassisted waterbirth. Johanna began having contractions on my birthday, Saturday night, around 10 pm. After five hours, the contractions stopped completely, so we slept [...]
This year, I find my fortune. The birthday is a perfect time to reassess your life, look back on what you have accomplished, and look ahead at where you are going. To aid in my planning, I draw a Tarot card every year, to help me navigate the road ahead. This year, I drew the [...]
It was within predictable circumstances that I achieved a moment of enlightenment. The house was silent, and I took a scalding hot bath, soaking for half an hour. I spent the time feeling grateful for my life, from the grand unexpected circumstances that brought me to living in Costa Rica, to the small [...]
Whenever Mercury’s movement in the sky reverses itself, due to an astronomical phenomenon called Apparent Retrograde Motion, things generally get screwy here on earth. Image courtesy of Wikipedia In olden times, when Astrologers were doing their best to correlate events on the human plane with the movements of the Wandering Stars, Mercury was [...]
Like many arts, you must attain the proper frame of mind in order to access your muse. Music, atmosphere, time of day, ingestions in the body, these all must be carefully managed before you can relax your conscious mind enough in order to allow the muse to whisper through your actions. She’s fickle, that muse; [...]
Like many people who are energetically sensitive, I had a hell of a last few weeks. I don't know if it was something in the stars or general October rainy blues, but I was in a funk for a couple of weeks. So I shook things up. I pulled my desk out of the bedroom [...]
Sometimes, it's best to stop working. Sunday is the second day of my workweek. One of the advantages of being your own boss is deciding when you get time off; and this morning, as my own boss, I played hookie for two hours. Friends came over with their kids, to play in the pool. Did [...]
I've been a bad blogger lately. Sure, I've been busy - running a business, moving to Costa Rica, chasing after two toddlers, etc. - but there's no need for me to neglect my blog like this. Aw, great. I just took ANOTHER crap on my blog, and opened my post with an apology [...]
Any list of personal gratitudes could potentially be very long, for any living person: having eyes, having a mind that allows you to think, a heart that gives you desires, and the fulfillment of even tiny desires - these are all gratitudes that are available to any of us. Sometimes, life puts us in the [...]