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Express Yourself, don’t hold back.

When I tagged my Facebook friends on my first published article, my hands were shaky, I was sweaty, and I had trouble breathing. Even writing this article makes me feel uncomfortable, and I'm scared that people will think I'm bragging. But my main point is: Why are we hiding our talents?

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Night Cycles: Poetry For A Dark Night Of The Soul. {book preview}

awaken. revel in the heat of your own flames. the song begins. you are not alone.

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In Memoriam: I’m Still Not Over Prince’s Death.

It’s been about a few weeks now and I still can’t imagine a world without Prince. As a young teen I had a crush. I admit it. He was exotic. He had beautiful eyes (always did). You could sense he was a shy, interesting, intense, mysterious person you could talk about art and the ...

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The Ten Commandments Of The Wild Priestess: Verses For The Holy Heathen.

Witch, you were born wild, and they tried to make you forget your birthright every Sunday. They threatened you with nightmarish visions, and put images you never could have conjured on your own into your little-girl psyche; they planted these fears there, hoping they would take root. Tear them ...

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We Teach Best What We Most Need To Learn.

... next time you have the inspiration to create/write/paint/say something but don’t -- because you feel like you’re not good enough, not worthy enough, not experienced enough, not consistent enough, not perfect enough -- do it anyway.

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When Did We Lose Our Dreams?

You are always ready to dig deeper, to do that art project, to quit your job and go hiking for six months, to move across the country, to apologize to your beau, to call your estranged parent, to kiss your crush, to dance in public, to read your poems, to start that habit, to ask that person to ...

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For The First Time, Truth.

My healing process has been mysteriously intertwined with learning to knit... Sometimes the material we have in hand is not the most beautiful or refined. It might not be what we would have chosen had we had the choice. But we can work with what we are given. The pieces that make up the whole ...

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Divine Weavers: Honoring Our Mothers As Artists.

Deeply disheartened in her marriage, yet pregnant with her second child, my mother had put all of her winter hope into her garden. When her flower beds were destroyed that spring, she got down on all fours, her round belly caressing the earth, and ran her fingers through the soil, desperately ...

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Finding Her Way To Feel Again — Guilt-Free.

She wanted to make a difference in other people’s lives, and was inspired by a program offered by Landessportbund (an institution governed by the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany) to empower young girls, teaching them self-defense and instilling in them awareness about self-assertion. ...

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In These Woods Alone: The Ecstatic Ache Of Creation.

The air grows heavy with the texture of sound, but the weight increases so slowly, so minutely, that if you walked into these woods alone you would begin to lose hold of your sanity, would wonder at the buzzing in your ears that fattens and develops into voices in your head as surely and as ...

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