Still in Portland, Oregon … and it took flying across the country for me to truly realize the importance of mutual respect and also the inner reflection of what’s truly important — sincere love, respect, and poetry. Tonight I read with Aaron at Nine Muses in NE Portland. It will be a great moment (one of many these days here) to share the stage with Aaron again, our words and minds tilted completely and together toward Truth and Beauty. I truly dread leaving tomorrow, but know I will be back in a few months and that is when my true life, unconfused and for the first time clear, will begin.