December 2011
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January 24th, 1946 Dear Jean, I was so sorry to hear about your bird dying, Why don’t you write a story about Chips ? Just as if you were writing to me, and tell all about it right from the beginning, and all the cute things she did. That’s what makes stories interesting, to have all the little details just as if you were telling a friend, and soon you’ll find how easy...
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Self-Help for Nerds - Chris Hardwick
Whether it’s games, alcohol, painted figurines, film continuity, or conversations where we’re convinced someone doesn’t like us because of something we said, nerds obsess. We zealously deconstruct. We have that very active internal monologue. I think many of the things we undertake are, in part, attempts to drown out that monologue. We are hyper-self-aware. We have difficulty “chilling out.” We...
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November 2011
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Who Needs Us? by Dorianne Laux
The quiet, the bitter, the bereaved, the going forth of us, the coming home, the drag and pull of us, the tome and teem and tensile greed of us, the opening and closing of us, our eyes, in sleep, our crematorium dreams?
The brush of us one against another, the crumple on the couch of us, the spring in our step, the sequestered dance in front of the cracked mirrors of us, our savage suffering, our...
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"Fire" - Nick Flynn
more the idea of the flame than the flame, as in: the flame of the rose petal, the flame of the thorn the sun is a flame, the dog’s teeth flames ~ to be clear: with the body, captain, we can do as we wish, we can do as we wish with the body but we cannot leave marks—capt’n I’m trying to get this right ~ the world’s so small, the sky’s so high we pray for rain it rains, we pray for sun it...
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Scarecrow on Fire - Dean Young
Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve, off the overcoat, huge ensembles of assertions just jars of buttons spilled, recurring nightmare of straw on fire, you the scarecrow, the scare, the crow, totems gone, rubies flawed, flamingo in hyena’s jaws, noble and lascivious mouth of the gods hovering then gone, gone the glances, gone moths, cities of crystal become cities of mud, centurion and...
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“Stronger than our fear that we can’t make a difference is our instinct to...”
– Lori Deschene
October 2011
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“Friendship is unnecessary. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those...”
– C.S. Lewis
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