A chain of events changes a lifetime: a lifeline is breached. Fala looks back on the circumstances of her life with a new perspective. Is the new perspective true and accurate? If so, her old sense of controlling her own destiny is askew and a new viewpoint of realistic inevitability has taken its place. Was her old sense of harmony and mysticism a truth? Or was Fala just another prey of off-kilter confused inner thoughts and a victim of malicious outer forces beyond her control?

Essays on Restorative Justice: To tear one down so low, to scrape the bottom of society, to sit in cluttered lives of misery...pride broken. Lives woven like basket weavings to form a shape made by restriction. Restriction to land so barren, bleak, and smoke...wind blown smoke that eats away and leaves red smoke that fills eyes, nose, and mouth. Smoke that fills shoes, clings to pants. Restriction to land colored red that bares no fruit, no life save scrub brush and tough grasses. Poverty...who knows or understands the endlessness of this cycle that beats a brave people down and in the end...

A short but poignant tale about a child's lostness.

Askew-out of true, uneven, off-center; awry. Virility-strength, energy, manliness; "Aggression and Virility are highly prized in soldiers." ______________________________ An innocent canoe trip turns Ominous.

"Today, I am shattered-battered about by the turmoil of emotions I cannot put away in folders-battered by visions of the past-handcuffs, shackles, orange, windows, phones-no way to touch, no way to feel the warmth of hugs. No way to humanize the experience save to touch glass and pretend to feel the warmth of that other hand." -Joanne L. Bond

Somewhere near the Texan-Mexican border. Tipc is driving. The next thing I know three police cars are behind us with their lights flashing. "Uh, Tipc," I say, "I think it's you that they want to pull over." Tipc looks behind him and asks, "Why?" "Well, I don't know " I sputter, getting more exasperated with him every second, "JUST PULL OVER " After Tipc pulls over to the side of the road and stops, he reaches for the registration in the glovebox. "Hands in the air " the officer practically shrieks at Tipc through the open car window. Tipc looks terrified but he does what he's told. The...

Fala lives in a sorority house, but not as one of the girls. Fala is the Sorority House Mother. There are lots of things for First Nations Fala to learn in a sorority house. But Fala has a few ideas-of-her-own she wants to teach to the zombies, ahem, girls, too

Here is one woman's evolutionary yoga journey. This little handbook has inversion sequences, standing pose variations, modifications, and more. It is less a book of how to do things and more of a personal record...entwined yoga philosophies with happenings in life. Stories of life hidden within this book may also answer questions about themes and symbology in The continuing Muse is Musing saga. "This is an honest, personal journal into the very trippy concept of yoga and enlightenment that we all love so very much."

A sweet little book to put in your back pocket (and keep it there ) when you break up with your boyfriend and need a guide to stay broken up with him.

Welcome to the flow of life Message from a dream: Just let go...be in the flow...floating headfirst in the stream, trusting like a baby...the flow of life is gentle. A boy and a girl are put into foster care. They find out they are half-brother and sister. The foster parents aren't really bright. They are strict and the boy and girl cook and clean up. Somehow the tasks are stabilizing but suppressing to them at the same time. They resent the couple. They lie down on the floor and touch each other's bare backs (healing mutual backstabbing). Somehow this healing emboldens them. They feel they...