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What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything?

— Ellen Bass, from "The World Has Need of You" in "Like a Beggar" (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) (via Read a Little Poetry)

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I’m fine

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October, Louise Glück

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thou shalt err on the side of compassion

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social media has got twenty year old women thinking they have to be a "clean girl" at university with a morning routine and face masks and expensive water bottles and a 9pm bedtime. I am begging the world to let young women go through a crucial developmental stage of being disgusting messy little rats. for feminism.

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茶化す, Yuka Kasai, 2018.

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Oh shittttt I forgot this was my one wild and precious life

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i will not lie, friends in my phone, i have been imagining affection from time to time

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how to set your phone to explode when you spend more than two hours a day on it

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without fail, every time I read a well-respected author or artist talk about their process, from Chuck Close to LM Montgomery to Flannery O'Connor to William Stafford to Terry Pratchett, every single time, the key is writing on a consistent schedule. (And reading widely and reading well, which is another post). Most wrote daily, no matter how good or bad. Someone asked William Stafford, who wrote a poem a day, what to do if what you write that day is trash, and he replied with "Lower your standards." Terry Pratchett wrote 400 words a day. Chuck Close says inspiration is for amateurs. LM Montgomery referenced having a scheduled approach. Flannery O'Connor said she was a full-time believer in writing habits. As she stated:

"You may be able to do without them if you have genius, but most of us only have talent, and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits, or it dries up and blows away...This doesn't mean I produce much out of the two hours. Sometimes I work for months and have to throw everything away, but I don't think any of that was time wasted. Something goes on that makes it easier when it does come well. And the fact is if you don't sit there every day, the day it would come well, you won't be sitting there."

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Juan Brufal

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Eli McMullen - Home, 2020

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all the moons of 2024