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a poet’s notebook

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January 9, 2011

Isolation and Shame

There are side effects of long illness. Isolation is one of them. I was lucky, relative to other folk with chronic illness, in many ways. I was lucky to not have a partner who would — or would not — struggle with this burden. Some few may be lucky to have partners who… Continue reading

mondo beyondo dream lab + gifts of imperfection, One Little Word

Ali Edwards, brene brown, chronic illness, isolation, One Little Word, scrapbooking, shame
February 5, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

NO-READING week is over as of 10:00 pm tonight. And I will be glad to have it behind me. I learned that not-reading does not, for me, free up vast amounts of energy, though it does free up time — that commodity others covet, and of which I have plenty. I wrote a bit more.… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, disability, illness, shame, The Artist’s Way
January 28, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Notes: Recovering a Sense of Power

Cameron says Life is what we make of it, which is easily said by those of us who have it easy. But I’ve written about this before, and I don’t want to feel angry this morning — another topic of this chapter — so let me expand on what I do agree with. Synchronicity: I… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

shame

Isolation and Shame

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity

The Artist’s Way ~ Notes: Recovering a Sense of Power