In one month I’ll be flapping hard over the Atlantic, en route to another big step of Living the Dream. Ever since I was wee did I want to spend some time living outside of the U.S. So my first foray into International habitation will be this 6.5 month jaunt in Berlin. People keep asking what I’m going to do there, so here is the short list: live my dreams, art projects, chill out, continue my Teaching Myself to Love project, collaborate, travel, learn, enjoy. I have a semi-secret big performance piece in mind, more info will be slowly leaked upon further cromulation and some percentage of realification. I’ll be living in Neukoln. I’ll be thinking of you.

March has been such a revelation in a certain kind of energetic 0 to a certain kind of energetic 3000. In preparation for my trip, I’m sure, somehow a flock of beautiful queer Europeans have landed all around my life. I was listed in a Swedish newspaper as one of the recently naked performances to hit the stage in Malmo. I wrote a piece for a Dutch feminist magazine, Lover, about sex worker performance artists. The day-to-day decisions of my life: how I spend my time, what I eat, where I sleep, etc. suddenly turned into community processes as I welcomed my collaborator, Lula Mae Day into my home and life, along with a succession of ebullient houseguests and an overflowing nest of other allegiances.

I’m working with this new set of intentions and impetuses, and I’m loving them. Its this program I call “Living the Dream/Leaps of Faith”. It’s all about discarding practical logic in favor of bold steps towards living my dream, but implementing practicality and logic around the little stuff to keep me grounded and semi-cromulent. There is a lot of what feels like putting the cart before the horse involved in this program, and it gets quite scary at times. I feel like a fast fast car loaded up for a cross-country move, with every precious belonging strapped to the roof. And things keep flying off to be lost on the side of the highway, but I just keep rolling on towards the beautiful goal, and it is actually all ok. Better than ok, its really happening.