on my board this year: just write your stories & have fun. the last part, i am learning, is as important as the first. pleasure is important.
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on my board this year: just write your stories & have fun. the last part, i am learning, is as important as the first. pleasure is important.
Driving father's car as long as it's still roadworthy ๐
Three months of healing ๐ป
Sincerity, touch up done by Kat from Crimson River ๐
โ๏ธ๐ #LeatherboundHands back to writing this as a break from #FullofGrace -- and now I can't get back into the rhythm.
Again by Eileen Myles
"there she is. Something dark at last."
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Lucky Kittens by Eileen Myles
"always ready for a fight"
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September 7 by Eileen Myles
"All of us out there at night not even looking for god."
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Just to update that i'm targeting to finish this chapter within this week, and then to start the next chapter as well. fingers crossed. Two chapters a month?
๐งตโ๏ธ #languishingworld #fullofgrace
--I am able to walk around the rooms of the story that i am building, so I'm writing chapter 2 instead of starting where I left off.
๐งตโ๏ธ #languishingworld #fullofgrace
Still here, actually. I'm writing out updates on WeekendNovelist as I go. I've got about 25K words, not counting everything I've removed, and not accounting for any editing I have to do. Since I've finished writing out the outline, I feel--
weekendnovelist.net
Rewatching Fellowship of the Ring, it is as good as it has always been.
Fellowship ๐
I'm taking myself out on a date tonight to watch Fellowship of the Ring in a cinema after 25 years!
I'll be trying to create a poem by using the lines quoted from the poems I read though the year
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this is a love letter to living a life with eyes full of wonder
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps by Andrea Gibson
"Of course beauty hunted me. It hunts everyone."
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In You by Eileen Myles
"forgive me for the obvious my love deep & translucent"
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Sending the best possible healing energies, Gabby
El Mozote by Andrea Gibson
"If they couldn't catch the fish, then they were gonna drain the sea."
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Approaching two months of healing, considering another piercing on the side of my nose
Photograph by Andrea Gibson
"I've been wrapping one night stands around my body like wedding bands."
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Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night by Mary Oliver
"Over and over he gets to ask. I get to tell."
For every dog, everywhere, always.
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For My Friend by Eileen Myles
"what comes after is a small idea. Now is large rainy."
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From "A Working Life" (Grove Press, 2023)
Cool & Bright by Eileen Myles
"It could be no worse."
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(This really helped me in 2025, but I wonder if I should just collate all of this elsewhere. Not sure, but will go on despite)
๐งต Poems I read in 2025: bsky.app/profile/sila...
๐งต Poems I read in 2026 --
Feynman coffee doggo ๐ถ
๐ชด Highest point of pleasure