Narcy by M. Ulto

Shot the incredible Narcy, of Euphrates, at his Williamsburg gig this past weekend.

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Hip-Hop For President logo

I’ve been a busy girl lately. Designed the branding and the website for Hip-Hop For President.  Edited the trailer.
Peace,
Melissa

Hi Tek shot by M. Ulto

Great photo shoot the other day with artist Hi Tek. We shot around Soho, finding some hot graffitti to pose in front of. The shoot yielded a lot of excellent shots:

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DJ Seth Gold - Cover Shot for Gay Wired June 2006 Issue

New photo galleries from a very busy spring have been uploaded. DJ Seth Gold and I were thrilled to get the June 2006 Gay Pride Issue Cover of Gay Wired. See more of the work below and in the photo section.

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Fairy Considering Flight

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

I bow my head to the beautiful souls I know and feel blessed today. Close or far, my life is richer for people I love and who love me. Can they forgive me for my passionate missteps? The sweeter souls have, and still do.

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Different Kind of Diamond Girl

Patience

Mine me
Not the earth
Seeking stones of pressure and time
to represent your love and mine
Seek me
Not the mask
Culture’s selective mirrors shine
Keeping love limited and blind
Touch me
Not the skins
We clothe our collective sins in
Seek love’s higher goals to give in
Hear me
Over the blast
Trumpeting nothing but thin hype
Silence falls, do you call me wife?
Love me
Real, Deep, True
Do you really know me or you?
Find your soul, and so find me too

I’m waiting.

Peace & Much Love,
Melissa

The World - Winged Spirit Deck

You are now rooted in the certainty that you are a wanted child in a benign universe, a sacred seed growing in the divine garden.

The Tarot

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Deer Mom…

The tonglen practice is a method for connecting with suffering —ours and that which is all around us— everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us, no matter how cruel or cold we might seem to be.

Pema Chodron

Today is one of the most difficult days of the year for me. And for my mother, I’m sure.

Mother’s Day is akin to Memorial Day for me. I remember the warzone of my childhood, presided over by my mother’s deep rage and addictions. PSTD won’t let me forget. Neither will listening to Jiminy Cricket sing “When You Wish Upon A Star”. The tears fall easily.

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Gaia As A Showgirl

Eternal Servant: the constant widening of hips

Women never come to terms
with the constant widening of
their hips; in their wiliness
they try to cheat the nature of woman:
cutting on the bias, camouflaging,
lengthening, in denial of the natural
law of the flesh. But I am
an eternal servant of your body,
I am happy when it thickens
and happy too when it narrows:
a beloved place, a sad source,
from whence I came, and to which,
alas, I will never return.

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Union Square Mystic

The great Way is easy,
yet people prefer the side paths.
Be aware when things are out of balance.
Stay centered within the Tao.

The Daily Tao

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