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Alphabet Soup Part II
A-Z Notes to Self
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Lead with Light, Let Fear Follow
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Beyond Words
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A Lesson in Listening
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Memory Alchemy
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Vignettes
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Alphabet Soup Part II
A-Z Notes to Self
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Mini Musings
5 Prose Vignettes
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Lately
Poems, Polaroids, Playlist
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Garden State of Mind
Before this night, nobody had ever given me a present wrapped in aluminum foil.
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December Dreaming
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Little Things
10 Poems
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A Map of Maybe
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Evidence of Effort
The growth mindset vs fixed mindset concepts have stuck with me ever since I learned about them while working in a middle school math class.
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Money, Room, & The Whole Sky
Often, I find myself reflecting on the conditions for creativity; what helps, what hinders it; how mothers navigate pursuing creative lives despite the…
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Great Friends Are Burdens
Day by day, I’m increasingly convinced that being a great friend might be one of the most important roles a person can choose to play, and really, that…
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On Being An Integral Function of the Universe
One mode of being I find essential for myself revolves around holding lightly labels, titles, categories.
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On Honoring the Essence of Experience
There’s an anecdote about Claude Monet, the French impressionist painter, that I think about often.
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Little Things
I love the potency of little things.
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On Communal Heartache
When a certain mood strikes it’s not uncommon to seek out melancholic material; art to nourish the blueness; whether a song, say Elliott Smith’s Between…
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On Creative Containers as Ritual
I need anchors to keep me grounded, so I don’t disappear.
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