In times of crisis: or any time, really—we look to the past to find a path through the present. My name is Oau Greer and I am a lifelong writer. The clarity of that knowledge is searing. Some truth is undeniable, and that makes it love.
From what I’ve seen (mostly the very limited free content on Patti Smith’s publication), Substack is a place designed to foster community and offer writers a forum for multifaceted self expression. Basically, Twitter for adults.
This appeals to me. Here at Oau Greer, I will publish journal posts inspired by
→artworks
music, films, poetry, museum visits... laughter heard in the streets, sunbeams reaching skin… to this reaction channel, everything is fair game.
→creative movement practice
I am a certified yoga instructor and I love moving around*ੈ✩‧₊˚<3
Most people are not attuned to what’s happening within and of themselves. I utilize a movement practice to calibrate, grounding myself into bodily and spiritual unity. I want to share the joy of that wholeness with my communities.
The body knows things that the mind can’t.
RYT 200 - Yoga Alliance
only read this part if you can keep a secret: Deeply related to my love of the body and unlocking its hidden mysteries is an everbudding interest in Jewish Kabbalah and the Tree of Life, which hold truths that our purpose on earth is healing.
I will write about Palestine and Israel. First, I cry.
→America
$ome things we don’t choose.
The Awakening of The Forest (1939), Paul Delvaux cropped by OG 2024
This is #bodyprayer content: meant to build rapport and trust with the body I inhabit and the bodies I contribute to. I will also be posting
→Fiction works
short form, long form. Monologues for fellow actors. Whatever crops up.
You will get songs and poetry and sketches. Jungian psychobabble. Travel blogging if I’m lucky. Paradox and post-irony, thought and feeling. I want this to be a place to share openly and widely and honestly. I want to contradict myself. I WILL CITE MY SOURCES... even when it’s original.
Untitled, Nicolas Uribe edited by OG 2024
How often will we encounter one another? No promises on either end. Do drop in. come as you are. I only want to share when I know I have something meaningful or prickly to contribute.
Silence is for the dead. I’ll take the smoke, but I want a bigger mirror—maybe it’ll help us find the fire. We are here to reflect upon each other.
Together we’ll adventure into territory that the map could only dream of. Let’s delight in the gravity of the fool’s first steps.
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Check out this post on SUBSTACK! and subscribe for free. <3 originally posted there 7/27/24
