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February 12 - Landscape of the Heart
My heart is her exaggerated bottom lip pout right before she cries—and then being able to comfort her.
February 12, 2023
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What is the landscape of your heart? Don’t think. Trust whatever comes up for you.

I love this prompt. This is now the fourth time I’ve done it and each time it’s different.

In 2017 I wrote, among other things, “The landscape of my heart is an open road in America, emptiness stretching before me for hundreds of miles as I whiz past cornfields, open plains, through mountains, deserts, forests and up coastlines. Nothing makes my heart glow like the freedom of the open road and setting out on the beginning of a journey that has no specific destination, no time limit, and no agenda.”

In 2019 I wrote, “My heart is a wanderer, passionately in love with the human experience, trying to drink up as much as possible, and connect to as many people as possible in the limited dash from the coyote under the cool desert night.

In 2021 things settled down: “Sitting here in my adorable house I’ve rented for almost 6 years, the landscape of my heart is firmly grounded in the details. Not the soaring adventures—but the simple, elegant moments that make up a day with the people closest to you.

The landscape of my heart is a cup of coffee in the morning, brought to me in bed by my husband. It’s Hope, bugging me for a walk or barking at me to play. It’s the sound of Maggie’s laugh or Sam’s latest conspiracy theory. My sisters’ voices as we talk for hours. It’s my niece and nephews smiling via FaceTime. My heart is the backyard at my aunt and uncle’s—chatting by the grill on a hot summer night.”

And now here I am, in 2023, the landscape of my heart has drastically changed again.

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The time has come, Pham!! It’s officially the end of our Locals era. This means that starting now, all of our content will be centralized over at Substack and not Locals.

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Locals is where it all began so the move is bittersweet. I have made lifelong friends here. We’ve done writing prompts together. Worked ...

Hello new followers, I hope I don’t disappoint you. I want this place to feel like home, where we can escape the Thunderdome and process the world. Where we can post dog pics and recipes and book recommendations. Where we support each other as we get sober, lose weight, embark on new business opportunities, creative endeavors, relationships and travels. I want this to be your oasis of sanity and laughter in an increasingly mad world. A creative outlet where you can share your spirit with us.

We might not have any control over the news cycle—but we can control our habits and attitude. It all starts with us. And hopefully a little piece of that will start here.

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?
The writing prompts are back! And since everyone is talking about "what is a woman?" I thought we should dig into our Factory Settings and find out what we learned about this stuff.

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?

The writing prompts are back! And since everyone is talking about "what is a woman?" I thought we should dig into our Factory Settings and find out what we learned about this stuff.

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