04/17/2026
I recently went to visit my last homeland, Texas. San Antonio, Wimberley, Austin, Bastrop, Marfa, Fort Davis, Balmorhea….a real greatest hits kinda trip: of people, places, community, conversations, skies, waters, gatherings, husbands (only one!), feelings, tacos, animals, nature and all the rest.
I also got to spend a week with Wild & Tappen. Wild’s mom, Gabrielle was my best friend who passed away years ago when he was three years old. Watching them together, like brothers, like they have been together for years, made my heart complete, like chutney on a grilled cheese sandwich, but even better. It was a lot for me to not actually explode into a million stars.
I was really surprised at how incredibly homesick I was for Texas. And how much I struggle with the duality of loving multiple places for different reasons and that moving onto new things doesn’t diminish the old things. I miss my community like mad and I will always have a big piece of Texas in my heart. Bigger than Texas itself.
So many Canadian friends have such (rational) fear of the USA. And I get it, I do, BUT the day to day life is just a lot of amazing fun loving smart fierce beautiful people bonding together to fight the good fight and doing what they can to resist the mind blowing fever dream crazy corruption happening. It’s full of people CARING.
So much love to you all. May all beings be free from suffering and may you grow your capacity to see the truth and not hide from it.