Maggie Shay Jordan
scrapbook club??
inspired by Martina Calvi
“closure can only really be given to you by yourself, because if you sit around waiting for them to apologize or initiate making amends, chances are, you’ll end up waiting forever. You don’t always have to wait for a sign from them that it’s over. You can put the signs up, too, you know. A lot of us don’t realize we hold this power.”
in “the most fu
... See more“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
“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“you’re as good as your upside allows you to be”
in ??? by Vicky Zhao
“write without inhibition, edit with clarity”
in ??? by Jared Henderson
inspired by popular “write drunk, edit sober” quote (anonymous)
“the whole is more than the sum of it’s parts”
by Aristotle
“I’ve long been fascinated by this idea that every person in my life was once a stranger to me.”
from “we should all talk to strangers” by Angelina Hazzouri on Substack
“Good writing is downstream of self knowledge. I once wrote that writing 'is the act of externalising thoughts and feelings that might otherwise remain tangled and hidden within the depths of my psyche.' The only way to get this right was to engage better with what was going on inside my head."
in “on not disappointing myself” by Sindu Shivaprasad o
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