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Focal Nomad wrote a new post, A Second Eulogy for my Father, Happy Birthday Dad, on the site Focal Nomad 12 months ago

As usual, my father did it again. Today I had been debating whether to go to an EFT Tapping workshop (“Tapping into Financial Flow”), a Halloween party at Cloak & Dagger (this goth-like members-only dance club I […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, A Eulogy for my Father, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year ago

Hi everyone. As many of you know I’m Amanda, Terry’s daughter. Or as he might have called me, “Cakes,” or “his favorite youngest daughter.” While I have been living in California for most of the last decade […]
Focal Nomad commented on the post, Imperfect Shapes, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year, 1 month ago

So glad you found this to be helpful. We can never be perfect, so we might as well love ourselves for whom we are; and love others for who they are.

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Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Sunrise Over Grassfish at Mendocino Magic, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year, 3 months ago

Gravity. Pulling my left then my right lids down. I can’t vouch for my creativity when I can’t see the lines I’m writing between. Feet out, lean back, Wait.The sun will crest over eventually. Let it be your […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, The Story of my Cat Gwen, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year, 6 months ago

When I was 20 I was entering into a major transition in my life: I was moving into my first apartment and going to be living alone. This also coincided with me deciding to go against my doctor’s orders and […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Sunrise at One Love Fest, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year, 8 months ago

Shot/Written at One Love Fest, October 2017.
I wish I was a birdTheir mating rituals are so simpleAnd with my love songI’d know damn well whenHe was calling on another.
Love the people in these photosBut e […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, New York Diaries: Christmas at Home, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year, 9 months ago

Christmas Eve. This was an intense day to travel. I got stopped 4 times between checking my bag and the gate because of my hard drives and camera equipment and every time had to pack and repack to that […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Sunrise at my Audition in the LES, on the site Focal Nomad 1 year, 12 months ago

Written and shot on October 17th, 2017.

I didn’t get picked again.
He didn’t even touch my hair.
Doesn’t he know that it’s virgin hair??
Not picked, rejected, the idiots.
Idiots! Sounds familia […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Self-Destructive Heat, on the site Focal Nomad 2 years ago

Bathing myself in this heat
I let the air pressure renew me
Off of Spring Street

Those ICEE’s look delicious
Been craving a frappucino
Both make me feel old and gross

I refrain from the s […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Sunrise at Woodlawn Cemetery, on the site Focal Nomad 2 years ago

Written and shot on October 12th, 2017.

I chickened out two mornings ago making the excuse about cloud coverage. I was really afraid of the legends that this place was haunted. Would my camera be blown […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Imperfect Shapes, on the site Focal Nomad 2 years ago

Don’t make decisions from your pain, love.
It may feel like you want to take the scissors
and cut up all the shapes to shreds.
It may feel like none of your circles were perfect,
like your hearts were a […]
- Focal Nomad replied 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  So glad you found this to be helpful. We can never be perfect, so we might as well love ourselves for whom we are; and love others for who they are.
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, The First Sunrise, on the site Focal Nomad 3 years, 6 months ago

First sunrise

Feels like the end of a vampire phase

No more last sunsets, only firsts

This morning, this day

Every day is now a first

I try to look at it, to take it in

But too much of a good […]
Focal Nomad wrote a new post, Your Comprehensive Desert Hearts Packing List!, on the site Focal Nomad 3 years, 6 months ago

Desert Hearts Fall 2015

It was around 2am at Symbiosis, I was not sober and it was time to make a pee break. As usual for a festival by this time, the portos had run out of toilet paper. That didn’t matter to […]

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