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Saying Yes to No
Today is a Wednesday night. B and I are trying something new to ensure our creative selves are nourished. I’m calling it Maartsy Time (for now) and we are making ourselves take at least 30 minutes, off the TV and our phones to create. I will be writing and he will be painting and sketching.…
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Hope is Perspective
It feels like 2025 has lasted one hundred years and yet here we are, not even 6 months into my golden year. We’re still here, and as is the case with life in general, it’s been a mixed bag. Some truly awful historical things happening and yet some genuinely wonderful, if bittersweet triumphs in our…
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Survival Mode
Based on past experiences, I know my brain won’t want to remember how terrible the next 4 years (hopefully just 2) will be but with enough time distance, I will get to a point where I will be genuinely curious to know what my state of mind was during these challenging time.
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Do You Believe In Magic
Isolation Journals Prompt: What are the people, places, and things that make you believe in magic? The miracles in plain sight? Using parataxis, allowing yourself to move associatively, let images, sounds, and ideas accumulate in a list. If you’d like, begin with the line, “Believe in magic—how could I not?” I’ve heard it said that…
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Ok, Fine
An actual update is due. It’s been Vagueville City for a while, I’ll pull back the curtain just a tad.
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The Prettiest World
I think this is the prettiest world–so long as you don’t mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have its splash of happiness? – M.O.
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June
Nothing Gold Can Stayby Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
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Zig Zag Life
Well hello there, 2023! Is it just me but does 2020 to now just feel like one really long year? A few thoughts and potential blogpost ideas swirling in my head but haven’t had a chance to put them down for single theme posts so I guess this is where I shall place them. I’ve…
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