I Ventured Out!

I’ve ventured out!

I bought horror and some mystery books this weekend. I usually stick with classic fiction, but I got a bag full of books from authors who are living and breathing. I also haven’t really had a reading mindset while working, but I’m feeling curious about the world of horror and mystery lately.

There was a type of book I wanted to look for but didn’t know how. I really enjoyed the Serpent Queen series about Catherine de’ Medici, the 16th-century Queen of France. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I can’t imagine finding a book that has that same psychological vibe to it. Is it a psychological vibe?

So anyway, that’s my next challenge. If you know of any good books similar to the Serpent Queen series, please recommend.

Okay, It’s My Turn Now

“And I said to my body, softly: ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied: ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.” -Unknown

I’m on spring break from college, and it feels so right!! I know my week off will fly by, but I’m going to do my best to enjoy every moment, or as many as I can, at least. I’m just glad I have made it this far and with all assignments in.

Stay Curious

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein

I was just thinking today about how I used to be so curious about the human mind. It was a huge driver for me. But I did reach a point where I felt like my curiosity was satiated. Not that I finally knew all the answers, but that I reached a full set of satisfying answers. When I felt like I finished, I got this aching feeling of loss, like when you finish a good book or when a concert ends that you really enjoy. They say to stay curious, though, and it’s probably because once that thirst is gone, you sort of float around looking for the next best thing. There’s plenty to question. The search never truly ends. Maybe there was more to it than simply satiating the thirst?

What do you think?

What happens when you feel like you satisfied your curiosity?

This World

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau

I love art. I love creating. But I love learning the rules. I love seeing how other people create and use techniques to their own advantage. We get to apply all that to our lives. We aren’t stuck. We can be diverse and unified in this beautiful world. We can share techniques, find our own ways to success without compromising the lives of other human beings.

Do you love learning the rules? Or would you rather figure it out yourself?

Against All Odds

“Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.” -Brene Brown

We are supposed to have moments where we question whether we can do this. We are supposed to show up every day with the freedom to choose. That is the adventure that comes with chasing our dreams. The fact that we can choose to quit at any moment on any day. But we finally choose us. We finally say, “No more! It is my turn.” We make that commitment to ourselves, even in moments where it feels completely impossible. And when we get there, when we get to the end, we get to say to a little girl just like us, “it is possible.” And when we say it, we will believe it so deeply and so confidently that maybe, just maybe, that one little girl will choose to chase her dreams too.

And that is why we keep going against all odds.

Jayne.Press: A Place Where You Can Be Human

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, discovers a spiritual vitality that lifts it above itself, takes it out of itself, and makes it present to itself on a level of being that it did not know it could ever achieve.”  -Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Jayne.Press has always been my artist space. It’s a place where I can create in different ways. Sometimes, it’s poetry, sometimes it’s short stories, sometimes it’s just me rambling on about tiny snapshots of my journey. I like that I’ve created this space where I can let myself be weird and unhinged. What I have learned from Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, and Salman Rushdie is that we don’t have to make much up in our writing; we already live in a very strange world. With that being said, fiction is my freedom. Writing is my liberation. I liberate myself every single time I sit at this keyboard and let myself be exactly who I am in that moment. There’s been nothing else like it for me.

Thank you for joining me on this fantastic journey.

Moon Mood

“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

Let the Boycotts Begin

“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.

Happy International Women’s Day

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

Blogging Yet?

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.