I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.