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Jocelyn Edelstein

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Recharging the Creative Self.

Exploring what invigorates our muse is as important an undertaking as the invigoration itself. I've found that I'm often recharged by things that don't directly relate to my creativity or to the particular project I'm in the process of completing. I’m recharged by things that relate to my  ...

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poetry

You Make Me Want to… {poetry}

You make me want to learn Morse code, so that if we were ever bound and gagged and held hostage, we could tap out a plan to save ourselves and everyone else, and if the plan went wrong, I could spend the last moments of our lives looking at you and batting 'I love you' with my eyelashes over  ...

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A Confession: What I Really Do in Public Restrooms.

Do you find yourself feeling half-spoken, half-heard or half-moved? Does your body heat up with energy like a premeditating volcano? Does your body have an empty space that howls with numbing wind? In what ways do unexpressed perceptions, translations and stories get locked in your body and  ...

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The Dancing Medicine.

Why, as we grow, do we disconnect from the medicine of our divine, inner child? Why do we block an untamed trust in the wisdom of our non-linear instincts? Why do we stop harvesting the beauty of a flexible mind? Because society values clear divisions between children and adults. Because we  ...

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wisdom

Notice What Pulls You, and Love What You Love.

Through many rounds of trial and error, I have learned again and again that a human and the world are like two magnets. The more I trust my instincts for living, the more I become attuned to the interplay between my magnet and the magnet of the world. Conversely, the less I trust my instincts  ...

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