Welcome

Today is the day. I am joining the blogging ranks! Why, you might ask, why you? Why today? Well, my friends, my dear invisible, potentially visible and tangible readers, it is time. My passion must be applied externally as I have no time to lose! Writing is breathing is healing is necessary and this is a good a time as any to begin.

My blog is entitled "Tara's Tongue" because I participated in an all female Spoken Word Collective of the same name awhile back and we had a great time collaborating and performing. Also, Tara's Tongue is a way of referring to a compassionate use of language, or compassion filled language, since Tara is a name associated with a Great Goddess of compassion.

Fiction blended with truth is the genre that comes easiest to some people- when it comes to creating. I might have made up the phrase or maybe other people use it. Spoken word and other kinds of work are often truth/fiction blends because it comes naturally to spin a story from what is real and what is experienced as real, the subjective truth. Add to the mix some imagined experience and images and you have a real genre to work with! Tara's Tongue is full of this. Hope you enjoy it, I know I enjoy creating it.

I am Imaya, which, loosely translated means - she who worships, she who pays her respects to the Buddha. I invite you to join me.