💬📚📝 “I offer up the idea of the safety of a sentence for you right now, the possibility of a place to put yourself, to put your heart. A place to rest for a while from these feverish days.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words
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💬📚📝 “How do I cut through all the constant buzzing around me and capture the simple truths? With the slash of a sentence.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words
🔮📚💬 “You don’t need to push or clear away your humanness to sit with the numinous.” Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul.
🔮📚💬 Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul:
…the Tarot cannot reliably tell us when something will end or how something will turn out. It doesn’t consistently fix, heal, or tell us precisely what will happen or when it will happen. But it can be medicine in the face of deep pain. It can help us come home to and stay with ourselves, no matter what might be arising.
💬📚 “It’s one of those rare moments when everything in his life fits where it belongs, when his skin is the right size and his brain isn’t a total liability.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped
💬📚 “… he’d prefer to pretend everyone in the world thinks he’s fine, but that ship has sailed. That ship is at the bottom of the sea.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped
💬📚 “Simon stays perfectly still, like he’s hiding from a Tyrannosaurus rex and not the existence of social norms.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped
“… for the purposes of personal action research, the standards used by professional researchers might not be required.” Jennifer Robins, “Action Research Empowers School Librarians,” School Library Research, Volume 18 (2015) 💬📓
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💬 “In almost every case, our manner of appearing is our manner of being. The mask is the face.” Susan Sontag, “On Style” in Against Interpretation
💬📚🎨 “Perhaps you can put it this way. A man who does a man’s work is a normal human being. A woman who does a man’s work is a kind of superwoman. She must be two selves, one who supplies energy for her part of the world’s work, the other the woman who fulfils the obligations custom has laid upon her.” -CECILIA BEAUX, AMERICAN ARTIST, INTERVIEWED IN THE BOSTON HERALD (1910), quoted in The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris by Jennifer Dasal.