existential
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Watching David Lynch’s first film, Eraserhead, in a 1980s vintage West Los Angeles theatre was a paradigm shifter. For a twenty-something from the rural American South, a heightened sense of boundless creativity soaked into me in that threadbare movie house and changed my newly acquired urban trajectory. Lynch’s connection with the fecund space of infinity
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Realm 1 coming soon
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Ask Carl Jung; Even Children Carry the Ancient Archetypes Inside Their Budding Psyches. All the more Reason to Tap into Mythology as an Ageless Beauty Heuristic. Kinship: From our rural farms in Tennessee to the folks who inhabited the Bronze Age, similarities abound even in the beauty realm. Did you know pigtails are considered Isis
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Seen on my walk today… This reminds me, two nourishing books about the natural world that I read in October: The Elephant Whisper H is for Hawk Have a Wonderful Week. Love and Peas, Auguste
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This year with the ghoulish holiday’s arrival, I spent several hours talking to a male friend about the libidinal shadow side of our lives. He was quizzing me about the complexities of the feminine and I was enthralled to be in the company of masculine loquaciousness at its most transparent. Nearing dusk, I feel a
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Underwater silence. I know the sound from being tethered to the bottom of a lake once but now it’s directly threatening. The rush of fear constricting my chest yanks the vagus nerve running up my neck. Too close to the reptilian connection that hearing has to survival, my amygdala gets defensive and rakes a dull
Auguste Hill 