Previously…      I'm exactly what I wished for once upon a starry night. Took decades to notice the contentment staring back at me from the bathroom mirror. Things on my wish list should've remained the same, whether I was 5 or 80. Adult things got in the way to muddy the clarity a child brings…

Previously… A certain slant and intensity of light captures the rays of a pink undulating star from within the center of Darla's agate. No need for assembly. Darla's burst of radiance does come with a price, though. Brilliance enters The Change and comes out the other side of the galaxy as a footnote. Darla designs…

Previously… Our Darla thinks she thinks for herself, but then sometimes she chalks up the talks she has with The Self as the hard-to-shake-off admonishments Ort flings at her every time she tries to express [in words] the really difficult, complex and sometimes icky feelings about [Ort] the world [internal landscape] in which she feels…

Previously… Darla came up with a magic number so she'd better have the courage to play it. It doesn't matter which end is up when it comes to her cups. A disruption is precisely what the Prairie View Drive-In Swap Meet needs. "Don't create a mess just to say you've accomplished something," Darla admonished Ort…

Previously… thirsty tresses teased into unspeakable shapes frosted-tip stylizationtendrils of sombre ombréand foreheads banged for business ladies on high roam from stall to tent in search of the perfect 99 cent:ladlecradleboatcompotevestbird nesta gilded pearantique laceunderwear hearth and home and fear of being alonesurround oneself with an elf on a shelfas knickknacks define our sense of…

Previously… Dreaming has returned along this sordid road. Everyone is running toward the right. Stand still to absorb the light. Might I imply that when you look up into the sky, staring back atchya are my beseeching eyes? Have it both ways. Watch your strengths atrophy as you make room in your life for artful…

Previously… ORT: I am surrounded by carelessness and uncertainty. I can only continue to be on top of my shit and lend a hand as I see fit. I am guilty of prancing about like a peacock, but when I show up each and every time, I will sing a bar or two of my…

Previously… Let's discuss this recurring theme of trying on life for size and not clinging to any particular outcome: "The only approach that's working right now is to show up. Routines are my besties for the time being. It feels like I'm barely lifting a pinky, but I see the tall waves crashing toward me.…

Previously… Another bazaar season has blown in from the north for Miss Darla T. Varney. She spins her craft throughout the year to delight passersby down at the old Prairie View Drive-In Swap Meet. She attaches a price to all her creations; a sum too steep to pay according to Ort. Boothby is decked out…

Previously… Darla on the mountaintop, proclaiming to the four winds, with a silver chalice in her left hand and a finely-wrought blade of steel in the right: Both of these accessories are in play as they pertain to my energy and destiny. It is almost as though we are not examining two people, two archetypes,…