I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

To me, magic is everywhere.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on my own, in the city I had grown up in, after an entire life made in Olympia, Washington for the eight years previous.

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.