This started as a side note in my post yesterday about The Crimes of Grindelwald. You probably don’t have to read it for this one to make sense since it’s mostly a review of the film, but it’s here in case you want to. Oh, the human psyche. I do this Thing in classes when […]
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This is just about the most important lesson I’ve learned this year: fail to success. That’s Dean Wesley Smith’s way of putting it, but it’s another spin on the old saying, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” Way back when, when my son had just been born and
Wow. Wow-Wow. So, as you know if you’ve been following along, I spent last week in Las Vegas for the WMG Writing Business Masterclass with a host of incredible, amazing people – participants and presenters alike. I have 50 pages of handwritten notes, an action list longer than my arm (which I need to sort
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Juggling is hard. It takes skill, and precision, and determination. And when you can juggle six balls with ease, eight balls with confidence, ten balls with concentration, and are living life constantly at thirteen balls… You can get hysterical when failure arrives. Or you can toss your failures up in the air and watch them
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…The other thing I seem to be really good at doing on a regular basis is forgetting lessons I have already learned. This week, in Things Amy Did But Should Have Known Better, more amines! I stumbled across this post from last year on the weekend, and was like, yup, definitely used to be smarter
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I wrote the below post back in November last year, but I couldn’t bring myself to post it at the time. It felt too much like screaming into the void, and it hurt, and I hurt, and everything was just too much. I found the post this past weekend, when I was trawling through my
I don’t know about you, but I’m fairly well drowning in Weltschmerz this week (of the unironic kind). Humanity really just does seem to suck, constantly finding new ways to disappoint where values like empathy, compassion and mercy are concerned. Honestly, becoming a hermit is a super appealing (and super privileged) option right now. So,
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The common misery of the world feels overwhelming. Petty cruelty; major abominations; selfishness, thoughtlessness; slavery, abandonment, abduction, discrimination, hatred, you know the list, it goes on and on and on and on, and this is one of those weeks where it’s been grating on my soul more than usual, one of those months, one of
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No one ever said: You must love only perfect things. So when I tell you, “I love my body.” I’m not claiming perfection, or delusion, or illusion. It’s unfit, like a jellyfish with bones; it’s neglected, a latch-key kid in its own skin; it’s flabs-not-abs, scars-not-spas, pores-not-cores. You are telekinetic. Did you know that? (Telekinesis
