Talking in big circles around and through dreadful traumas and fears, sex and money and violence and loss and shame, to come back to a love and passion that is enough to pull me back. To be my totem. To withstand the vicissitudes of life, slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, trials of time and people who seek to shit on others’ happiness and Debbie-Down everything. Avoiding such tendencies in myself and others to remind myself again and again how this place saves me every day.