Essays and years of poetry, gathered as she wrote them. Her writing lives on Substack now; every so often, when the work asks for it, a new piece appears here too.
Writing,
in seasons.
Cyclical time: planning by season, not by quarter.
Why I stopped running my year on the fiscal calendar, and what I use instead.
Two strands run through this page: essays from the practice, and Songs of the Lotus, a poetry archive from 2020 and 2021. If you came here from the work, these are the ones to read first.
What hospitality finance taught me about creative practice
A P&L is a self-portrait. Here's what that looks like in practice, and how it's changed how I work with artists.
Why I took a job I plan to leave
On choosing a role not as a landing, but as a classroom, and what Aluna has to do with any of it.
The longer pieces.
Cyclical time: planning by season, not by quarter
What hospitality finance taught me about creative practice
Why I took a job I plan to leave
Trust Fall: A Blind Date with Faith
For My Parents
Lit in Stardust
Self Portrait
Red Renaissance
Forbidden Dreams
Will Rise
Reflections on the Modern Fight for Racial Justice
SiZ0n 25
Journal Entry: 4.20.20
Om Shanti Om
Fame Game
Curiosity did not Kill the Cat
Shenandoah
Blossom drops.
Short. Overheard sentences, three-line drafts, a line from a book that stayed. Most of the essays start here.
What Aluna means.
Published my first essay on Substack. I'm still sitting with the question: how do I give language to something words can't hold?
Kinfolk, live.
Summer currents in New York, in great company. I heard Mereba sing it like a blessing.
Roy, halfway through.
I'm reading Arundhati Roy's memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. Devastating and beautiful, often on the same page.
Discovered Poetic Reason.
A new voice in my rotation. The kind of find that rearranges my week.
Overheard at the studio.
“You don’t have to earn your own rest.” My teacher, this morning, to nobody in particular.
Three lines.
Draft the season. Price the season. Rest the season. I have been rewriting this sentence for a week.
Clarice, again.
Re-reading Água Viva on the train. Underlined the same paragraph I underlined in 2019. Different reasons.
Feb 28.
February ended before I was ready. Spent its last morning doing nothing. Counts.
Enter the garden.
An intimate look at how she thinks, what she believes, and how she changes. Aluna: On the Sazón of Living is her bilingual Substack, a fluid space, her garden, not bound to any one format.
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