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love our low

On Instagram I see  Lori Harvey  on luxury seascapes on islands with bae  We don’t do that.  we are building dreams  with our pens  in a city  run by thieves  and a freelancer wage  but i can’t help but  love  how being with you  in my living room sober  talking about the way the Choctaw people painted suns   on cliff faces to tell time & running silly workshops on…

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(via https://soundcloud.com/nad-ge-ren/my-writing-journey-part-i)

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dream, girl

I don’t believe in tunnel vision. Tunnel vision tells me i must reduce my life to one thing. That it is a sin to be still. That i must laser my gaze, squeeze my days, and bend my spine till it cracks, for this one thing.  Maybe this thing will cost me every other thing. Like book filled baths in the morning before work and my long, slow release of the day. Maybe it will cost me my exhale. So…

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Matterless

I never like my poems. They are never sharp enough. I write in a way that is delicate, in a way that comforts, because writing keeps me safe. As ‘open’ as I am when I write, I bleed the words I do not say. I use cadences, like bubble wrap, to insulate my readers from the raw, bitter flesh of these feels.

Never have I ever written about how it felt to grow up parentless, the matrix of foster care,…

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@tainahcavalcanti

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She is involved in a beautiful pursuit, in the business of freedom. She dances and dances, and does not pay attention to what is going on about her.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from “Women who Run with the Wolves,” c. 1992 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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I love the ordinary moments💜

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ig: jessmegan

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Fire and Ice (love, loss, & covid-19)

It’s been a long time, I know. Since I last wrote here I performed in another play, I hosted a ‘Dream Setting’ evening at home, I made an application to Arts Council England to fund the promise I made in 2016: to travel and write.

I got it. I got it. They have funded my two month journey across the seas. An adventure that has lived in my cells, and glided gently across my diaries pages for years.…

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I’m still learning a lot… #TBT

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adut akech bior

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Antique Bookstore, Loches, France

photo via ali

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Sukiyaki- She Wanna

watch this video!!! this girl can dance her ass off!! take notes ya’ll lol!!

they just performed at the ASU (African Student Union) Gala yesterday and killed it!!!!