OMG, you guys. If I had to pick only ONE song to listen to for the rest of my life, this piano piece may well be it. It’s haunting and beautiful and hopeful and magical and if my soul were one day captured and turned into music, this is what I would want it to […]
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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
In good times, it is possible for a lion to purr. (If you have not seen this, you will not believe me.) Your lion wants to keep you safe. Because of this, occasionally, when you are safe and your lion sees this, it will rub its cheeks against you and purr, like the distant rumble
The best way to fight a lion is to not. Instead, approach it sideways, from the very edges, looking vague, and non-threatening. When it realises you are there— and it will— it will growl, and bear its teeth, which feels a lot like a lump in your throat or adrenalin in your stomach. But you
There are days when the world sucks at your feet, when every step is a long schhhhhhhllurPOP of effort, as you grind against the forces that hold you down. Depression isn’t a fight, it’s a slog. There are days when everything you feel is caked with mud and the mud isn’t yellow, or white, or
Another poem this week, probably the last one for a while. The title pretty much sums it up, but when I first heard this several years ago it really stuck with me, and then there was a conversation in our car (not involving me) that kind of collided with it, and I wrote a poem
Can’t have slam poetry month without some Omar Musa :3 This one’s from his latest book of poetry, Millefiori, which is as glorious as his first two volumes (The Clocks, currently out of print, and Parang) but is somewhat of a departure from his usual subject matter. The Clocks and Parang are more about culture,
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IDK, I think this is just going to be slam poetry month, ‘kay? ‘Kay. Anyway, this one’s lovely, and touches on a topic that fascinates me both as an English teacher and as a trained linguist. We tend to have this view that anyone who can’t speak ‘proper’ English is lower, defective in some way.
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It’s Friday the 13th and I refuse to think of that as anything but lucky. This is totally not related to today’s video, but there you are. Anyway, I feel like we could all use a little encouragement these days, and a reminder that YOU, YES YOU are awesome 🙂 So here you are: a
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