monkeygrrl72

1. Name: Naomi Dawn blahblahblah
2. Age: 35

3. Location: Sacramento, about to move north, again.

4. Occupation: I didn't go to work today, and I don't think I'll go tomorrow either.

5. Partner: I can't even answer this question is how confusing the partner thing is right now.

6. Children: 1

7. Brothers/Sisters: one brother, 3 sisters.

8. Pets: 1

9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:

9.1 Spoken word poetry, oral interp, field studies and research.

9.2 My son, Zeke, age 3.

9.3 Relocating to Washington.

10. What did you go to school for? Currently in school. Natural Resource Management, Urban sustainability, and communication studies

11. Parents: my dad lives in a care facilty in missouri, and my mother prospers in shoreline.

1
my father, who art in missouri,
in rainwater and mudslides,
may they wash away for you
the feelings of un-worthiness, un-loveable-ness,
and 50 years of whispers
behind your back

and the taps on bathroom floors,

2
did you give or receive,
while I was sitting in the car, with mother and brother
waiting

3
speak truth, Daddy
just,

finally
let me see,

you

4

we don't know?
the younger queers
JUST, don't know?
no,
we know
this
IS
*exactly*
the way
history has, always
just,

disppeared

Things have been going at the speed of light, I never get a chance to update, but I'm hoping this will change. I know I said I was moving last summer, and for many reasons that didn't work out. That was probably for the best at the time, although I'm hard pressed to say that, and it's just faith that the things which don't work out were not supposed to work out for reasons I don't understand or can't know. What I do know, is that I'm trying again. I have some help from my mom and some friends up north, and I'm scheduled to head out of here at the end of the month. If you are in Sac, and have any desire to see me, sooner would be better than later. I will be mad busy having a garage sale, packing and fixing my car. Zeke and I are headed to Olympia this time, and there's help on the other end, so I'm quite relieved to be leaving. Although equally sad and anxious. I have been here in Sac since June 2002, and much has happened, many friends have been made, some lost and I am sad to say goodbye to my community. I will work extra hard to stay connected both here, email and myspace. Zeke is growing so big, and he needs to be near a stable family, his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. All of which he doesn't have here. If I didn't like my family, or we didn't get along, that would factor into this decision. But, I love my family, and I have missed them very much over the years. This has probably been the most bittersweet move I've made in my life. I have much to look forward to, but I am also leaving a place where I've so many connections and memories.

more later.

-na