Category: Reading and Writing
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Ohhh boy…
What books do you want to read? I have never responded to a prompt, but I can’t resist this one. I want to read all the books! I should probably start with my TBR bookcases. I currently have two. A problem I have is that when I am reading a book, I go down rabbit…
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Healing Through WAP
WAP = Word Association Poem Saturday, August 17, 2024 This is another exercise from the Rupi Kaur book Healing Through Words, which I am still so glad to be working through, however slowly. At first I scoffed at it a bit, as the word “healing” has become (well, to me, anyways) pedantic. Overused. Redundant. Insulting,…
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Why I Am Not Writing…
March 3, 2024 I joke around a lot about being an overthinker, as I understand how ridiculous it can get, especially when I begin to overthink my overthinking. I have never been able to comprehend how people manage to see a clear path forward and execute plans without doing the insane mental gymnastics that I…
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Mango Pits
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 For some time now, I have been working through Rupi Kaur’s book “Healing Through Words” which is essentially a collection of guided writing prompts and some instruction on and insight into her writing process. She has some very short yet powerful poems which she calls “peach pits” because you start with…
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Controlled Serendipity?!
Monday, June 24, 2024 Serendipity From Oxford Languages: Synonyms: Chance, boon, fortune Origin 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’. I am in a…
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Interrobang Poem
Interrobang Poem Cognitive dissonanceWith a twist?And a spike!Or is it a dagger?! Twisting around in the folds of my brainThe spike is vodka, or is it tequila…Clarity.Dissonant clarity.Dagger twists and opens the foldsThat I have fought so hard to keep shuttered. Victorian shuttersKeep the madwoman in the attic.They fly open from time to timeFlames and…
Interrobang Me Hard, Baby 