Author: jen graham

Over the course of my life as a woman, I have been constantly and continuously told, taught, and treated as if the way that I look, my visible, physical body, is an offering to the world. That my face and demeanor be pleasing. That my physicality be both beautiful and desirable...

the light has changed what once was no longer is and what could be is now everything and nothing all at once because there is nothing but this moment with the turning leaves and the cooling breeze and the sun at a new place in the sky

I can't help but think about the physical loss we are all experiencing & just how vastly different many of our coping strategies are. Some of us are sharing & posting more on social media. Some have dug deeply into our work. Some have spent our days making those previously rare phone calls, texts & video chats to friends & family. Some have become researchers & news watchers & experts on infectious disease. Some have become political commentators...

Until last week it had been months, maybe even over a year, since I had danced. And I don't mean demonstrating something for a class or putting some choreography together for a recital, but rather being truly, deeply inside of my own body with the intention of exploring and creating something of substance, of meaning, of depth...

Miles Davis said, "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself." Sound. Think, move, look, talk, act, BE... Amy Poehler talks about how "it takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. To find your voice and seize your real estate." It has taken me 36 years, 6 months, and 3 days, to be exact, to claim my real estate, my Self...