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Letter to SchoolLess #4: A Sense of Where You Are
On Hearing and Listening to Voices and Finding Your Own
"These months are not a blip but a beginning."Read More
Letter to SchoolLess #3: In Sync & On Purpose
On Context, Coherence, & Consideration
"Perhaps it is our similarities that Mom finds so infuriating?"Read More
Letter to SchoolLess #2: The Poets Know of What They Speak
The Private Made Public, the Public Made Private
"Even the most momentous happenings flatten out with time and in memory."Read More
Letter to SchoolLess #1: Let Yourself Be Known
On Passion, Ambition, and Being
"Respect the superlative! Have some goddamn perspective!"Read More
I Do What I Can
On the Relativity of Time, Truth, Sanity, & Other Things.
"This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me [dear metaphorical] God."Read More
Attitude
On Perfection, Intention, and Opposition
But, honey, that is who I am. What else can I say?
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Waiting For My Epiphany
Resolutions, Chronological Disjointedness, a Touch of Assessment, and More!
"I am in a never-ending relationship with interruption, if not the reality of it, then the potential or aftermath."Read More
The Agony and the Ecstasy
On Irony, Optimism, Perfection, & Relative Sanity
“The thrum of the heavy, pulsing downbeat, an affect to which I am susceptible, began to feel to me as I imagine a hit of heroin feels to an addict: calming, insistent, essential, and ultimately insufficient.”
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Racing Like a Pronoun
Competition, Self-Motivation, & Balance
“Supine motivation is how I describe my approach to my academic life.”
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Juxtaposition
This, That, & Other Things
“There are connections to be made here. Meaning is where you make it.”
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