Lost in Reflection
She found a pocket mirror in a velvet box, tucked between things she could not remember wanting enough to bring home…
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creation
We Are Little Children, Forever
In relation to the age of the earth and all the centuries of civilization that has come before, everyone is–essentially–a child…
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MUSIC
Sharing music is much like showing someone your bedroom for the first time. It allows them a glimpse of your interests and personality that may not come out in normal conversation…
I’ve written 8,000 words of my first book and have hit a wall
The thing is, I have an outline written for the entirety of the book. I know where I need to go next, but I can’t figure out what words will get me there…
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I’m Obsessed with Abstract Nouns
The best thing about abstract nouns is that they can never be fully and completely described. You can, at any given moment, feel a happiness more profound than you’ve ever felt or expect to feel again, but you’ll never be able to convey to another person…
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Functionalism is a Product of the Devil
Most people’s idea of functionalism has been influenced by the functionalist architecture movement that became popular in the 1930s. It made no room for self-expression. And they called it creativity…
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life is art
Prose Over Plot
I am attracted to sentences that are prettily strung together. I care less about what happens in a story, how the characters behave, and more about savoring and dissecting each line…
If you want to be miserable, dwell on the past
But, the thing is, most everyone feels like me when dwelling on the past; it is a universal experience that, at best, causes one to feel bittersweet. And the bitter part is always stronger….
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Time Doesn’t Exist But Somehow I Do
The themes of my dreams are always much the same. I am chased by ogres. I have guns pointed towards me and must jump out a window. I am stuck on a pirate vessel in the middle of the ocean. But mostly, I lose my teeth…
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Beauty in the Crevices
The things we love are beautiful because we love them. As a people, we assign beauty and give it meaning…
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Life is the Joyful Moment of Finding Your Next Book to Read
Sometimes, yes, I feel sad and like I’m losing a part of my life when I finish a book, especially the ones in which I feel the deepest connections. But, eventually, I get excited to choose my next read…
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creationIf life is art, so are our favorite recipes? | Mushroom Coffee Hot Cocoa
I’m sharing a recipe. Am I a food blogger now? No. But I am obsessed with this cold weather drink. (I invented it, I think.) It is sweet and rich and not going to poison your body. I love sitting with a cup of this mushroom coffee hot cocoa–I could not come
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life is art
Mirrors of All Things Lovely
If we would all keep being reflections of the things we admire, kindness and goodness would forever prevail. We would all be a never-ending stream of mirrors. showing pictures of people loving each other…
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What We Already Have
The difference was that she noticed. She found wondrous beauty in the clouds…
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creation
As the days turn cold…
At this time of year, there is no warm air or campfires or woodland hikes to make me feel that my stay on Earth may be infinite…
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I try to be a gentle girl, but this enrages me…
Really, you’d think we were animals, tearing our teeth into creatures made smaller than us…
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Escape to the Mountains
You need to exist outside of your daily life and be a part of something bigger than you’ll ever be…
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The fire is beautiful before it turns grey
The thick, ash-filled air makes grey their clothes and hair, lying, restless until all does stop…
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creation
The Try-Nots
It’s funny how many people don’t try for anything in life. They don’t make it their own. They take it as it comes. ..
Depop is the best buy-and-sell app for creatives
Listing and curating your style is a form of art…
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life is art
A new coat of paint won’t fix anything
Maybe, sometimes, things are just best left…
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creation
On Being Gardeners, Butterflies, and Bees
This summer, I found fulfillment in watching bees and butterflies feed from the flowers I grew from seed in the spring…
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creation, life is art
WAKE UP, WAKE UP
I know déjà vu is a genuine feeling everyone experiences, but it has become stronger than that as of late. Anymore, it feels like every day is the exact same, that every moment has been lived…
You are in a plane hurtling towards the ground
Yes, you are. Right this very moment…
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Handwriting vs Typing for Creative Writers: How I Plan to Write My First Book
Is there a reason that one feels most creative when using a pen and paper versus a keyboard?
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Your Belief in Something Higher
Alternate title: On Being Ready for the World to End
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creation
Every Margaret Atwood Book I’ve Read, Ranked
Countdown to the most revered…
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literature
A minor historical figure that I obsess over: Cornelia Horsford
Cornelia Horsford was a 19th-century writer and archaeologist born in Massachusetts.
She had a lifelong ambition to search for evidence of Norse exploration and settlement in North America…
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life is art, literature
Birth, Poetry, and God as Artist
“…when it was finally ready to see the light of day the poet was delivered of it often with much painful labor…”
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creation, literature
I Sleep in Silvery Darkness
What is it about being bathed in moonlight?
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creation
Mules Who Dream of Becoming Lions: Thoughts on Creativity in a Capitalistic Society
We are told that creatives must work as if they are lions: in great spurts of energy and intense focus when struck with inspiration…
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creation, life is art
We’re insane until we’re not
Normalcy is merely created when a majority of people are in agreement. In other words, when enough people think something is right, that thing becomes the socially acceptable version of correctness…
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creation
I’m starting to think there is no such thing as being “too sappy”
When I’m touched with a heavenly warmth in the form of an act of another human being, I start floating. I drift down the hall on tiptoes, a faint smile on my face, my eyes far away…
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creation, life is art
Art Romanticizes a Downward Spiral?
The blade of the guillotine falls on us all, and we must depict it as art…
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Does Self-Discovery Ever End?
It is so terribly hard to understand oneself and one’s place in the world. Your inner thoughts are all-consuming and seemingly what determines how you move through life. But what if your thoughts do not align with your actions?
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We’re Going to Die, I Seek Salvation
I want to know with absolute certainty what is going to happen to me after I die. Not my physical body, but my soul…
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Emotionality as an Art Form, a Thing of Beauty
She sees her vulnerability and finds solace in her sentimentality because she knows that freely expressing her emotions is beautiful…
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Panoramic Psychosis: A Poem
Sitting on a porch seeing…
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And She Was
She contemplated defenestration, spontaneous combustion, and drowning like Ophelia; she wanted to go out singing madly…
Tell the trees your problems
When life isn’t going your way, and you are unable to lay your head down at night with an easy heart, you must begin telling the trees your problems…
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life is art