Maya Angelou once said “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.“ As the “new normals” and “uncertain times” of our post-2020 quotidian realities have quickly eroded into routine and resentment, I hope that this brief fractal fantasy will bring you...
but about the idea of collecting quotes in the first place and the consideration that, as you put it very well, “being funny gives them permission to be rude.” Unfortunately, since I chose the quotes, I too am culpable.
The thing about family, however, is that while we’re out and about in the world living, even as that same world will so often be vicious and unforgiving, there will always be a group of people—a place—where living assumes love and where the cardinal rule of governance is forgiveness....
I have clear, set boundaries these days. I don’t feel the need to do anything I don’t want to do. This does not at all mean that I am selfish. In fact, I am more selfless than I have ever been in my life. I am just more discerning now. I am more choosy about who I he...
There are clichés that rip off great poets like John Keats, ‘stars swam’, & those straight from a workshop. This may be the worst poem I’ve ever done in a TOP- well, okay- perhaps Nikki Giovanni & Maya Angelou would argue that point. Then again- I could only salvage 2 of the...