Maggie Shay Jordan
“We may live between dichotomies - summer vs autumn; blooming vs wrinkling; pop culture vs global politics; joy vs. despair; hope vs. apathy; light vs dark – but we must never forget that it is a privilege to do so.”
from “a love letter to october” in notes on on Substack
“October is for the writers; for the readers; for the hopeless romantics. For the many lonely, beating hearts who reach to literature and lyrics, to feel that hand of hope reach out to them through the words of a stranger: I feel it too, you’re not alone, really, you’re not. You’re fragile in the best way; you crumble in the right places; you feel,
... See more“on a personal level, october can feel like the time where things either fall into place or fall apart. you’ve got the momentum from the start of the year behind you, but suddenly, you’re staring down the last quarter.”
from “the October theory” in milk and cookies on Substack
connected to the october theory
“Anything that dies is going to scream. You add your ego into the mix, and it’s almost guaranteed.”
from “you are worth the mess you make” in the delicate decade on Substack
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have
... See more“What I’m saying is that albums hold memories. At least for me. They capture the moment when you listened to them. They hold stories and they tell stories. I know people date their playlists and, look, I love a playlist, but it just doesn’t seem like it’s the same.”
from “listen to albums all the way through” in now that’s a thought on Substack
“i want to be creative, i want to be imaginative in more than just my imagination, i want to hold something up to the world and say see.”
from “i wanted to create so much, I forgot” by palipoet on Substack
“if i know i can create but don’t what good does it do me? and if i’m a body of untapped potential but only i feel the potential is it really working? and if no one sees me as what ‘could be’ but what i am, am i just ordinary? is everyone ‘ordinary’ also haunted by the ‘could be’ of dreaming? or does their mind feel satisfied with the use of time a
... See more“what are interests if you don’t pursue them? unfulfilled ambitions? failed ideas? unrealized dreams? is it harsh to use the word failure if you didn’t even give it the effort? and if i know nothing is getting all my effort when can i find this hidden thing and use it for something worthwhile?”
from “i wanted to create so much, I forgot” by palipoet
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