23.07.02 - 3:12 pm

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: le
To: magical thing with huge eyes
Subject: i walked through a thundering rainstrom to write you this

lynda barry is here this week, teaching a workshop called "writing the unthinkable." she did a book reading from cruddy last night. she's hilarious and amazing and incredibly genuine. i want to be around her all the time. my friend holly and i went to talk to her afterward and holly had her sign her copy of cruddy. holly used to live in sf and be a big sf punk dyke. she's great. anyway holly reported to me today that after i wandered away from the conversation that lynda barry called me beautiful, to her. !!!

anyway i'm about to go buy cruddy and read it. i'm going to sit in the cafe and read it for two hours before i have to work. i think i'll eat ice cream too. i am bleeding and crampy. a few minutes ago a told my friend mana that i wasn't feeling well and he said "can i hug you?" and then while hugging me he said "your belly is all warm" and i said "yes, i have cramps." then he pushed his fingers into pressure points on my lower back and it made my uterus like, open up and flow forth. it was pretty wacky. i started to explain it to him and he said "no, its' ok, i get it."

i just met a guy with scorpio moon and virgo sun and virgo rising, just like you. he said he's had to work very hard to learn to express his feelings instead of run off and hide and mull them over and strategize. talking to him made me miss my virgos.

i want to come back to australia. do you think you will be there much longer?

it's hard to meet so many great people all the time, here. i want to be with them, travel with them, and always live with them. coming back every summer isn't quite the same. but maybe i will. i have a fantasy of coming back and bringing a geodesic dome and living in that for the summer. or i was thinking it might be fun to set up a dome on your land in oregon and live up there sometimes too. what do you think of that?

i found a cat in our little basement annex the other day. i heard it mewing plaintively and mewed back to it. we mewed back and forth till i found it, just a kitten, stuck under a palette. i freed it and it darted off, all feral. i wish i could have touched it for longer.

mew.

elly (http://elly.org)
soon, the oceans rise and take us. soon, the crashing of the stars.