Andrea Balt

Live like a Mighty River: Ted Hughes’ Advice to His Son.

Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it.

troublemakers

Charles Bukowski on Quitting His Day Job & Doing What He Loved.

Before turning into troubled writer and, according to Time, a “laureate of American lowlife,” Charles Bukowski was a 49-year-old post office clerk.

poetry

My Life Had Stood, a Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson.

On one hand, she embodies the two ingredients that account for a writer’s freakability levels: the forsaken art of solitude, which she took to new, deadly levels, and her passionate romance with language. Combine this with the mysterious, poetic elegance watching you behind closed doors. Doors ...

poetry

I Love You in Secret, Between the Shadow and the Soul: Pablo Neruda.

All art is escapism in the noblest sense. First you get out of prison with your mind, and maybe soon, your body follows. ‘Cause why would you even consider staying behind bars? No one is safe.

happiness

How to Recycle a Compostable Heart.

Just like you, your pain is organic, compostable. It never vanishes because nothing in nature just disappears. The natural mechanism of life is change.

poetry

After a While, You Learn: Jorge Luis Borges.

I like him because he used his art as an inescapable way into the tunnels of the heart, where -- with closed eyes but open mouth -- he bravely captured his own darkness, and then brought it out into the ephemeral, mundane light for the world to touch: Here, here, don’t be afraid, it’s only flesh.

Andrea Balt

Live like a Mighty River: Ted Hughes’ Advice to His Son.

Charles Bukowski on Quitting His Day Job & Doing What He Loved.

My Life Had Stood, a Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson.

I Love You in Secret, Between the Shadow and the Soul: Pablo Neruda.

How to Recycle a Compostable Heart.

After a While, You Learn: Jorge Luis Borges.

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