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Describe one of your safe places.
For that morning’s exercise each person had to draw a floorpan of their childhood home, then swap it with the person sitting next to them who would mark a cross in one of the rooms. The assignment came in two parts: first to describe an object in that room. Then to use that description to lead into a piece of writing about a person or an event conn
... See moreMiranda France • The Writing School
404 - e-flux
e-flux.comA house whose inside is as open and manifest as a bird’s nest, and you cannot go in at the front door and out at the back without seeing some of its inhabitants; where to be a guest is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be carefully excluded from seven eighths of it, shut up in a particular cell, and told to make yourself at
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
If you were creating a “holding” that was just right for you, what would be different than it currently is? Consider as many levels as you can, including the physical environment, social environment, and emotional environment.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
But take that kitchen, for instance! Maud Martha, taking it, saw herself there, up and down her seventeen years, eating apples after school; making sweet potato tarts; drawing, on the pathetic table, the horse that won her the sixth-grade prize; getting her hair curled for her first party, at that stove; washing dishes by summer twilight, with the
... See moreMargo Jefferson • Maud Martha
