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Cloudgazing

is that you, God? no, it's just the internet

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I've been sick for months and the only salve is poetry

Meaning-making, upcoming events, and other book things you'll want to know about

Feelings in the Right / Wrong Places

On reading Baldwin and taking narrative cues from emotional dissonance

Privacy, devaluation, and death

Cloudgazing gets ugly

Preparations for a Future Self

Who doesn't exist until they do, edited for then-current use

Dogs are dogs everywhere

Mexico City, breathing, walking, writing

Islands of Certainty

How it feels to swim between them and when to try to dock

Writing Diary 07 | Hope delayed, May 5th

Being sick and negotiating with existential responsibility

You Have to Believe In Time

It's the only thing that threads how our lives play out

🎧 Brain Space For One

And what about communal memory?

Moving Outward From Within

Connecting to the larger narrative - the throughline - for something more than fact

Writing Diary 06 | Bodily resistance, February 10th-13th

How trauma shapeshifts in the body and on the page

How Do You Embody Yourself?

The endless possibility of you might also mean you're constantly adapting

Writing Diary 05 | Simmering and undone, August 19th

When the internet tells you you're burnt out, you listen

🎧 What If You Released It?

Something hard like fear can be fluid like water

Writing Diary 04 | Softening, July 15th

You have to know and love what is meant for you

Awake to Life

I look to others and think: what is it that you see?

Writing Diary 03 | Vulnerability, June 24th

Where there is halfway, full-way, and little things that get us where we are going

Staying in Self-Love

How to be at the mercy of life in the right direction

Not Writing Is Writing

There’s a note in my phone detailing a recent interaction I had with a stranger.

Writing Diary 02 | Assurance, January 23rd

How do you know and honour your value?