Posts in the “FASCINATIONS” category
FEAST + FAMINE
by angeliska on November 26, 2015
It’s Thanksgiving time, and the cornucopias are overflowing. Refrigerators are stuffed full, a fruitful spread laden with more dishes than the table can hold, bellies filled to bursting. It’s a harvest pageant, an ancient feast where we eat our fill (…)
11.11.15. – NEW MOON IN SCORPIO
by angeliska on November 11, 2015
I woke this morning of November the 11th to strange dreams again. My subconscious likes to dredge them up for me on this day, make me face them in the wavering dawn light, parse their dark meanings, sit with their (…)
Katrina, Ten Years Later – by Raven Hinojosa
by angeliska on September 4, 2015
As I was struggling to write my own recent piece commemorating the decade since Katrina hit, I found myself thinking about my friend Raven, a lady who has been in my life since we were both wee rag-tag teenage snippets, (…)
Reverse Phoenix – Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later
by angeliska on August 29, 2015
I started writing this three years ago, but I was so broken towards the end of summer in 2012 that the things I so desperately wanted to express wouldn’t come together. My whole life was falling apart, again. I was (…)
The View from the Other Side – by Meghann McCracken
by angeliska on August 28, 2015
My friend Meghann wrote this essay about her life in New Orleans over the past ten years since Katrina. Her words moved me so much, and spoke to my heart in such a powerful way about experiences that are often (…)
Peachtree Street
by angeliska on August 6, 2015
“In that latitude the temperature flirted with a hundred degrees for a few of the dog days, but to a child it can hardly ever be too hot. I liked the sun licking the backs of my legs, and the (…)
NIGHTBLOOMING IN THE DEEP DARK WOODS
by angeliska on July 9, 2015
I started writing this almost a year ago: Take a picture of a dark room at 4am, slap a filter on it, capture a ghost. Take a picture of your insomniac, restless spirit, up tossing and turning way past midnight. (…)
Solstice Sisters
by angeliska on December 21, 2014
Happy Winter Solstice, and new moon in Capricorn. This is a reflective season, a time to go inward and focus on the light within. The regenerative powers of darkness gather around us now, and give us a container to find (…)
BLACKBIRD AND GOOSE
by angeliska on November 29, 2014
Olivia Hansson is a very magical lady that I have yet to meet – though I have a strong sense that if we were on the same continent (she lives in Sweden), that we would no doubt enjoy having tea (…)
Wisewoman Honey
by angeliska on September 25, 2014
Tonight is the new moon, both a few days after the Autumnal Equinox and a new year, if you celebrate Rosh Hashanah (and if you do, then שָׁנָה טוֹבָה to you!) I’m trying to slow down a little, and remember (…)
