by Emily Branden | Jul 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
I like to walk up to Cross of the Martyrs overlooking Santa Fe, where mountains wrap beyond my peripheral. Because I’ve needed faith these days, I’ve needed to trust, trust. It all moves so fast, I’m grateful for the cool mornings before the parties. It’s been a Bob...
by Emily Branden | Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was watching the city lights come up over Los Angeles dusk a few weekends ago, a childhood friend making homemade pizza from her Echo Park kitchen… We blasted Chris Stapleton all weekend musing how we’ve traded in our Docs for cowboy boots and the old country...
by Emily Branden | May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
I love squealing with delight as the first hummingbird hits the feeder. The sounds of live music wafting from the plaza, and sun setting pink in the sky. I wonder why we get so trapped by labels and definitions, and the illusion of time when love—is everywhere…?...
by Emily Branden | Apr 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
I chose to meditate into 2018, up at a Zendo off Cerro Gordo in Santa Fe. Besides being nervous about how it was all done, my friend leaned over before the program started and whispered, “That’s Natalie Goldberg.” I starred in awe, remembering a college introduction...
by Emily Branden | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve had to lay low a bit. Take time for healing and new ways. An act of rebellion, in a modern age that rages to keep up. Back in the day, I wouldn’t bother. But I have come to know the magic in resting, and that if we settle down enough to trust; precious moments of...
by Emily Branden | Feb 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
In my experience, love takes you. You think there’s a choice, but not really. It’s that first moment, and you can always trace it back. Something in the speech, or even more the pause… When it stares you in the face is when it scares me. When everything you’ve...
by Emily Branden | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m trying not to give a shit this year because I realized, back in the nineties, pre-likes and follows, I didn’t. I’ve been cleaning out my desk, dusting off old scripts. Watching Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix specials, so honest and raw with his truth that I’m...
by Emily Branden | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
I bought an advent calendar. And the delight in finding the tiny window, then pealing it open to reveal a bit of magic during shortened days, well— “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.” My grandmother taught me. Bought me one annually through college...
by Emily Branden | Oct 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Every girl who ever worked is processing these days. Rivaling the death of Petty, or even fires raging, the demise of Harvey changes everything…a dramatic end, to a new beginning—of brave sisters vowing truth. And I wonder what else we’ve been silent about all...
by Emily Branden | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Stumbling to a friend’s bathroom last month before dawn, I stopped—read the sticker across his iPad; “Warning: We’re All One.” I used to complain late nineties NYC, that our generation had nothing to stand for, that nothing happened… Now, I teach class post...
