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January 8 - Write About a Song
I was 16 years old when Tigerlily came out.
January 08, 2023

Write about a song and a feeling it invoked in you. 

Go west, paradise is there, you’ll have all that you can eat of milk & honey over there. You’ll be the brightest star the world has ever seen, sun-baked slender heroine of film & magazine. Go west, paradise is there, you’ll have all that you can eat of milk & honey over there. You’ll be the brightest light the world has ever seen, the dizzy height of a jet-set life you could never dream. Your pale blue eyes strawberry hair lips so sweet skin so fair, your future bright beyond compare, it’s rags to riches over there.

San Andreas Fault moved its fingers through the ground, earth divided, plates collided, such an awful sound. San Andreas Fault moved its fingers through the ground, terra cotta shattered and the walls came tumbling down. Oh, promised land, what a wicked ground. Build a dream, tear it down. Oh, promised land, what a wicked ground, build a dream and watch it all fall down.

 

I loved Natalie Merchant from her 10,000 Maniacs days. So of course I was eager for her solo album. I was 16-years-old when Tigerlily came out. I remember hearing that crisp, angelic voice coo “oooo ooo oooo” from the first track on the album—my favorite— “San Andreas Fault” almost like it was yesterday.

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Pham, I know it’s late for some of us, but I haven’t had a song in my brain in a bit. So, here’s one of my favorite poems instead.

Poem of the Evening💙

“Come live with me and be my love.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44675/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love

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January 27 - Girl, Interrupted
You shouldn’t be able to see your own face while you talk about your childhood trauma.

What, if anything, made you laugh in the past 24 hours. If nothing made you laugh, write about something that made you smile. If nothing made you laugh or smile—write about why.

(Sorry for the delay on this prompt—life happened.)

It was yesterday, in the middle of my virtual therapy session...

 

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June 5 - What is a Woman/Man?
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If you are a woman, what messaging did you receive about womanhood? Same question for if you are a man? What messaging did you receive about manhood? From the culture? From your parents? From your religion if you were raised with one?

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