“Avoiding your triggers isn’t therapeutic. Therapeutic occurs whenever you’re triggered and also you’re in a position to transfer by the ache, the sample, and the story, and stroll your solution to a special ending.” ~Vienna Pharaon I believed I had figured it out. For a yr, I had been doing the “interior work”—meditating each day,…
Name for Submissions: The 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Submission Window: Could 1 – June 1Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Journey to Auburn College The Southern Humanities Overview is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, a $1,000 award that celebrates poems of witness and honors the legacy of the late poet…
You possibly can’t calm the storm. What you are able to do is calm your self, and the storm will finally cross. Calmness is a human superpower. The flexibility to not overreact or take issues personally retains your thoughts clear and your coronary heart at peace, which steadily offers you the higher hand in all…
Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function houses for my weekly inventive writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my unique and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, largely in HV, to historical past and political philosophy,…
I’m an enormous fan of caprice. Whimsy makes strange objects really feel particular; it makes on a regular basis moments really feel memorable; it provides playfulness and power to life. So I’m all the time delighted to find some contact of caprice–a robotic vacuum named Cleanopatra, googly eyes on a practice automotive (thanks, Boston), a…
Pictures has at all times been about capturing gentle to protect moments. For over a century, that meant exposing a roll of movie after which disappearing right into a darkroom or ready for a lab to develop the pictures. It’s simple to overlook how totally different this course of was earlier than digital cameras got…
Summer season is about enjoyable and easily enjoyable. Properly, that’s no less than two of the primary issues in the event you ask me. And in right this moment’s submit I need to assist you out with that by sharing 80 of the wittiest, most intelligent and humorous summer season quotes. Ones that will provide…
Environmental portraits transcend conventional studio photographs by inserting topics inside environment that reveal one thing significant about their lives, pursuits, or professions. This photographic strategy deepens storytelling, creating photographs wealthy in context and character. Right here’s how one can grasp the artwork of environmental portraiture to supply compelling narratives. Understanding Environmental Portraiture Not like normal…
The 2025 Bridgette James Poetry Competitors Theme: “Nature and You” | Submission Deadline: Might 8, 2025 (Midday BST)Entry Price: Free | Open to: Writers from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and their diaspora Prizes 1st Place: $40 USD Runner-Up: $10 USD Prime 3: Revealed within the Penned in Rage Hardcover Journal Ella’s Poems invitations poets to…
“If you’re frequently judging and criticizing your self whereas attempting to be variety to others, you might be drawing synthetic boundaries and distinctions that solely result in emotions of separation and isolation.” ~Kristin Neff I used to be mendacity on my sofa once more, Netflix enjoying within the background, once I heard my husband’s footsteps…