A place where you can be human.
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso
Liberate me.
Let me walk away from all your logic
and experience.
Let me move with the moon
and write the waves across your skin.
I am but a woman.
Whole and full
and round from enjoying the best my life has to offer.
I’ve lost the directions
they’ve written
that teaches me
to doubt me.
Let me be free to dance
to wind around the strands of DNA
that you’ll never see
Free me
-Saschia
“Change will not come if we wait for some other people or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” — President Barack Obama
I have been fully involved in the boycotts. I wanted to share the dates as we move alone to remind myself the dates so I figured I’d share them as well.
Sylvia Plath I wish you were still here.
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anais Nin
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” – Caroline Gordon
“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” – Alice Walker
Is writing something you’re willing to blog about?
Do you have all sorts of writing tips, tricks, and ideas and have nowhere to share them?! You should totally start a blog. The one thing I love about having a blog is when someone likes an old post at the perfect time. It’s like a message to me from my past self. The “oh yeah, that’s right!” feeling feels so good, especially when it solves a huge plot hole!!
So if you’re a writer and you don’t have a blog yet, do it for your future self!! You won’t regret it.
I loved the Dare Devil series and King Pin is my favoritest character! I’m so excited to watch all the episodes. Here’s the synopsis
“In Marvel Television’s ‘Daredevil: Born Again’, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.” -Marvel
I like King Pin because he makes me question my own moral compass. haha but I like Dare Devil because he questions his own moral compass even though he is making the streets safer. They are both so human.
Are you a fan of any Marvel series either comic book or video?
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy” ― Lucille Ball
Yess! Because I needed it today. I’m so glad I have my “What do you need to keep going?” toolkit. I mean, I’m no quitter, but isn’t life just so much better when you take time to appreciate each step? I love that I’m prompted to stop and smell the roses when things get hard. I want to wake up in tough moments and be present. I want to recognize challenges as a chance to renew my strength. And how I renew it, gets to be up to me! There’s so much freedom here.
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” -Robert Henri.
Yes this is wonderful but to be completely honest, I want both. Soon hopefully. I can’t imagine writing being anything other than a lifestyle. It requires quite a bit from me. I mean it would swallow me whole if I let it. Either way, it’s an entire lifestyle for me.
What do you write for?
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-Yo Ma
Passion does bring inspiration. Focusing your passion on your art will at least give you the starting point to something. At most, it will transform you into something new. Spring is coming, the celebration of new beginnings and new growth.
What are you passionate about?
What are you willing to let transform you?
“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.” –Salman Rushdie
While I cleaned the kitchen today, I played a video of Rushdie speaking to a group of Google employees about his work. I appreciate Rushdie because he writes Magical Realism, and he likes the idea of leaving characters open to interpretation. I like to leave things up to my reader. I also like to play with different ideas of morality, but I think that’s one of the biggest reasons I’m drawn to storytelling. We all think we know, but we really don’t. I feel like writing stories is the closest I’ll ever come to walking in other people’s shoes.
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” -Khalil Gibran
One thing I have thought about in the past is that people may be rude and unkind, and you may be able to forgive them and find the lesson in it. That doesn’t mean you have to allow them back into your life. Take the lesson and move forward.
With that being said, I have very few people I hang out with, and I leave my house so rarely that the friend rotation means I won’t see some people for at least half a year. I say that to say, be intentional about your friendships.
Are you the type to have a lot of friends and always hang out with them? Or less friends less often?
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