Tribute to the Jiant

Happy 35th Birthday, Jeff!!

Camping at Oquaga Lake

Jeff and I went camping up at Oquaga Lake, which is close to Binghampton. We cooked a ton and enjoyed the fresh air, nature, and our spastic city dog swimming!

Oquaga Lake took about 4 hours to get to/from Brooklyn, so it's a little too far for a weekend. But it is very peaceful up there and there seems to be a small movement up there. We actually found an amazing converted General Store that has all the organic, natural products you'd be LUCKY to find in a market in NYC. So I was hooked!

evolve

i saw ani defranco at the united palace theater in harlem last night. this was on the setlist and one of the motivators in choosing to start writing again.

i walk in stride with people
much taller than me
and partly it's the boots but
mostly it's my chi
and i'm becoming transfixed
with nature and my part in it
which i believe just signifies
i'm finally waking up and there's this moth outside my kitchen door
she's bonkers for that bare bulb
flying round in circles
bashing in her exoskull
and out in the woods she navigates fine by the moon
but get her around a light bulb and she's doomed
she is trying to evolve
she's just trying to evolve
now let's get talking reefer madness
like some arrogant government can't
by any stretch of the imagination
outlaw a plant
yes, their supposed authority over nature
is a dream
c'mon people
we've got to come clean cuz they are locking our sons
and our daughters in cages
they are taking by the thousands
our lives from under us
it's a crash course in religious fundamentals
now let's all go to war
get some bang for our buck
i am trying to evolve
i'm just trying to evolve
gunnin for high score in the land of dreams
morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens
on the trail of forgetting
cruising without a care
the jet set won't abide by that pesky jet lag
and our lives boil down to an hour or two
when someone pulls a camera out of a bag
and i am trying to evolve
i'm just trying to evolve
so i walk like i'm on a mission
cuz that's the way i groove
i got more and more to do
i got less and less to prove
it took me too long to realize
that i don't take good pictures
cuz i have the kind of beauty
that moves

A new year, a new borough

Testing, testing... is this thing on?

It may be a year later but I'm vowing to try to write... AGAIN. A quick update:

- Not living in NYC anymore... living in Kensington, Brooklyn with my man, Jeff.
- I did adopt Mercedes! But changed her name to Miss Sadie.

More to come! Yay for being inspired again!