this virtual home like a forrest, sitting at the age of the sea. The pages here are like portals, and these portals are spaces – clearings, ponds, trails, lookouts and shaded areas covered over by the trees.

These spaces represent facets of my creative self: words and memory {Shaping Matter, aka the journal}, visual and still imagery {interludes}, and offerings {Sites of Memory}. Throughout this site, you will see thresholds, and entries to pathways in the form of buttons and clickable links.

Clink the links. Read. Listen. Explore…

I describe myself as “a woman breaking into herself”. In this sense, “breaking” is to express a kind of opening - like a seed opens when the roots break through to reach the soil, and discovering - like when those roots begin to grow up, and above the ground.

Still (at this big age) I am discovering who I am versus who I may have been told, expected or even, at some point, wanted to, or believed myself to be. Breaking, creating, and regenerating, coming together and falling apart, are constants within nature. In the natural flow of this life experience, varying amounts of breaking (up, in and through) is required, if not demanded, in order to grow, expand, recover, and discover. I discover, and recover through art, literature and curiosity, curiosity about myself, about others, the ways we are, the experiences we’ve had and how our experiences shape our states of being.

The translations, and transmutations, of this life and its experiences are how I, myself as a being of matter, has and continues to take form.

Consider this site an experience. Welcome. Welcome. And thank you for being here.