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just a writer wandering through her digital garden
rooney
... See moreYou have an empty vessel
Neglected and worn through
It cannot hold water
It cannot be refilled
You have a broken heart
With missing shards
Stuck in every hand that hurt you
Stuck even in your own
You have a gaping wound
Rotten and as old as you
That vices cannot numb
That lovers cannot sew
You have this mess before you
It’s all here on the floor
If
“Go with the flow” and “flowing like water”
Water will always get where it wants to go. It will take the path of least resistance to get there. Water is also patient; it will change the landscape, move through rock, carve out winding rivers. It will find the cracks in everything. So we flow like water, facing life with the same probing curiosity,
... See moreScreenwriting is showing not telling; structure is the presentation of images in such a way an audience are forced to work out the relationship between them.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
I used to think speed equaled competence. If you’re a motivated student, you may find yourself on the “accelerated” track. Instead of learning things that challenge you, you are simply rushed through the curriculum, “covering” concepts at a faster rate than your peers. Since I transitioned to homeschool, I never move on from a problem or subject... See more
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
I love queerness so much as a beautiful and belligerent tradition of people whose sense of love and beauty and justice and art and adventure and family is too expansive for the examples that were set for us. But rather than keep quiet, we insist on something truer for ourselves.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
As poet Brandon Wint wrote in a much-quoted social media post several years ago, “Not queer like gay; queer like escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness all at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like, and to pursue it.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Big ideas don’t show up fully formed, standing in our path. They need to be coaxed unto the open through persistent inquiry and exploration.
