Forgive me for being a couple of days late this month! I am a stage coordinator in a glorious play right now, and it has consumed a lot of my time and creative energy. I will be posting before this weekend is over, I promise, and it will be hot! Heehee. Thanks for being here, and see you SOON!
Love and Fire,
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The month of August was a wild ride! Cambodia continues to impress me beyond my wildest conjectures. I've been busy singing, drumming, dancing, teaching, writing, making new friends, cooking, and exploring. I even got laid off and started a new job a week later. Not gonna lie, I wore myself out this month and have to take it a bit easier in September.
I haven't done a self tie in several years, mainly because ...
Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world. It was built to venerate Lord Visnu TEN CENTURIES AGO. That's a thousand years of ritualistically walking the grounds. One thousand years of people coming to this space to feel the mutual awe of cosmic oneness. There is a point in the temple complex, where if you stand there, you can see the lazer perfect symmetry of the entire grounds. If you look through...
2022-07-31 15:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The month of June started out with rainbows and jubilant Pride celebrations, but ended in pain and destruction for the citizenry of my home country. The ramifications of what has been done by the Supreme Court have yet to be seen, but are already unfolding. Then, just because the USA is extra spicy, we have the absolutely horrific Jan 6th hearings also happening. It is my political opinion that the two are related. No m...
2022-06-30 19:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Life is moving quickly here in Phnom Penh as we embrace the Year of the Tiger. I got this sweet little stripey orange kitten, started doing my tiger workouts again (hit me up if you'd like to know how to make the most of a space the size of two yoga mats), settled into my job, made new friends, and more. One of the biggest and most exciting changes is how happy I am every single day. I just wake up in a great mood, toddle off...
2022-06-03 12:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Thus the ice has been broken! I wanted to share these images sooner, but the vast and sweeping changes influencing my life pushed them back until this sacred day. Latex is very important to me, and expressing myself by wearing it is something I plan to do for the rest of my life. I had a lot of fun creating this set. My mind is already plotting what my next adventure in these gloves will look like.
This has been a winter of extreme introspection, unexpected deaths, and many challenges. Along the way, and one might say in spite of it all, I have begun to relight the spark of my personal style of sensuality. Upon pondering all of my features, I must acknowledge that I enjoy my mouth the most. I am an orator, a passionate conversationalist, a singer of various genres, a kink freak, a foodie, a wine snob, a coffee and tea n...
2022-01-26 11:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I promised a gravesweeping ritual, and I shall deliver that at the end of this post. Currently, I am experiencing an intense personal transition. Not only is my physical location thousands of miles away from where I've ever been before, I am also experiencing huge shifts in my personal relationships, personal philosophy, and personal boundaries. I am experiencing shifts in how I see the future, what I want to do with my time,...
2021-11-12 13:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize for missing out on posting in the month of August. Traditionally, August is the most difficult month of the year for me, and often comes with extreme natural and sociopolitical disasters. I have learned that if I do not make hard and fast plans, I can sail through the treacherous waters of this time of year rather well. This approach worked for me again, this time. However, the natural disasters still happened, an...
2021-09-01 08:25:15 +0000 UTC View Post
So this move to another world is very much absorbing most of my time, energy, ideas, and patience. I have faced unexpected blowback from people on social media and in private messages. All of it is Amerocentric bullshit telling me that I'm making a mistake or that I am somehow offensive. This absolutely astonishes me. I never thought that leaving the United States would be as controversial ...
2021-07-13 05:00:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe last few weeks have proven to be up there amongst the most challenging times I've had in my life. Now that the proverbial bombs have stopped exploding and the dust is settling, I am making preparations to leave the United States permanently. Initially, I was hoping to generate a back-and-forth between patrons and myself that would determine the flow and direction of my activities here as these things transpired. As it tur...
2021-05-28 22:13:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I have noticed that several modern interpretations of the word "magick" or "magic" do not include many aspects of indigenous wisdom. These interpretations also tend to cherry-pick from various forms of non-Western thought, leaving the substance behind and taking only the jewel words or flashy high concepts. I walk a different path. To make that clear to the universe, I have chosen a spelling of this word that is separat...
2021-05-07 18:16:56 +0000 UTC View Post
As you may know, the cardinal directions and the four elements of creation have been correlated in cultures and traditions around the world. Many practitioners of a specific format believe that their interpretation is the most accurate or effective. You will find that I tend to laugh at such assertions. From my understanding, these correlations are about analyzing and describing the synergistic interactions that occur between...
2021-04-26 06:10:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This world swirls with misconceptions, stigmas, dogmas, stereotypes, dilutions, delusions, abbreviations, and other obfuscations of truth. Otherization and polarization are weaponized tools of mass media and organized religion alike. One of my favorite examples of how long these problems have existed in human society is how patriarchal retellings of matriarchal myths have shaped our cultural identities. For example, Queen Her...
2021-04-23 17:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post