philosophy

  • As in: “A dreadful building of gray stone and brown wood, it sported cherry-red shutters (not all of them shut) which by some mnemoptical trick he remembered as apple green.” – Vladimir Nabokov Source: Transparent Things Believe it or not, I just started reading Nabokov. I’ve resisted for many years for as many reasons, reasons

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  • Try on Transgressive Identities from the safety of the page: What’s it like to dive deeply into compulsion, be buried beneath your passions, elucidate the ephemeral side of love addiction? Like Oxygen Suzanne Lea Read Ride into a chemically induced romance on the back of a motorcycle. 100 Words / 12 / Hits / Gravity,

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  • Shan Lyu Christie Chandler Stahl Craig Matsu-Pissot Suzanne Lea Gina Moriarty Heather Weisfield Thomas Penn Johnson Nancy Meyer Erin Jamieson

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  • Clear.

    My recent skin diagnosis could be summed up like this: “Hey, 70s girl who spent hours soaking up the sun, competing to be the ‘darkest tanned’ in high school – you’re incredibly fortunate. That spot on your shoulder was serious (an L2 concern), but thankfully not the most severe kind (L3), and you fortunately got

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  • Some mornings I go out as the sun is lighting up the pavement on the runway, sip my hot tea, and let the metaphor of take-off fuel my imagination. The faint outline of potential stretches over the next several hours opening doors to figurative realms. Many will remain uninhabited but a few will beckon with

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  • Art house theatres in the 80s introduced my rural sensibilities to the avant garde of future American cinema at its cultural depths.

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  • Watching David Lynch’s first film, Eraserhead, in a 1980s vintage West Los Angeles theatre was a paradigm shifter. For a twenty-something from the rural American South, a heightened sense of boundless creativity soaked into me in that threadbare movie house and changed my newly acquired urban trajectory. Lynch’s connection with the fecund space of infinity

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  • Looking back on 2024, one of my dreams came true; it was a colossal one for me. I’d been incubating a dream that emerged when I was six years old. In my twenties it had come to fruition, then been overtaken by my soul’s desire to become a mother. Over this past summer the vision

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