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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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No matter how weathered. No matter how lonely or scarred. We are a marvel of architecture and engineering. These self-healing wounds. This reshaping heart. This living ghost of who we've been and who we are. The capacity to be taken down to almost nothing, to be rebuilt, to be renovated, to be renewed.

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villainous friend · @villainousfriend
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By which I mean, I’ve spent the last three–four hours trying to come up with a courtesy name for a canon character who’s only ever referred to by a kinship term, and who might as well be an OC at this point. I think I’ve got it now, thanks to Laozi.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Just finished up tomorrow's newsletter. A book review of the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo.

Now...to try and finish Wednesday's newsletter.

Link below if you'd like to subscribe and give them a read when they go out:
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Between desire and retreat, between the terror and the taste, what is there to grasp? To what can we cling? Perhaps nothing other than this moment, the fact that it passes, that sometimes it's sweet, that you are something that breathes.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Working on a bonus newsletter for Monday.

Some review-like thoughts on Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows Duology.

You can subscribe below if you'd like to give it a read when it goes out:
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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We let ourselves feel the bigness of everything. The emptiness, the longing, the ache. The foundation, the structure, the bones. Our sensitivity is a strength. The reality of our condition is not always painless, but at least it's something we can embrace. A somatic system of understanding. Something we can touch. Something with texture. Something we can learn to face.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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We're told to climb, to stretch, to grasp, to cling. But, to where? To what? To whom? On the other side of everything we've ever been through, what is waiting for us? What do we hope to find there? What is calling us home? What is the home we're calling to? At some point we have ask ourselves why it is we reach, if we ever hope to reach what we pursue...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Carolyn’s Substack - Rain after a drought

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Maybe you know the feeling. Maybe you know what it's like. To compose a life of scraps and fragments. To live in jumbled lines. Between stitches and tight sentences. In the texture of torn out paper, crumpled and dismayed. All our dead darlings, balled up on the floor.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Duane Toops - Reading and Writing...

This week's newsletter went out first thing this morning.

Some thoughts on reading, writing, and the fragmented life in-between.

Link below if you'd like to give it a read:
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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That's the funny thing about real life, isn't it? We're either always denied the things we want or discovering that we never really wanted them at all. Did you think it wasn't true? You can tell me I'm wrong, but you know it too.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Any moment is every moment. Any day is everyday. What you do with this one, how you hold it, how you view it, how you put it to use, says all you'll ever need to about how'll spend all of them, about who you are, about what'll do, about what you'll be. Whether you'll become something different, or whether you'll stay the same...

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Book mail!!

Been waiting with as much patience as my twisted little heart can manage. Excited to start it!

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Any introvert worth their weight in cancelled plans will tell you, it's easier to slip out early when you've learned to sneak in late. The best part of every guilty pleasure, is the pleasure you get from not feeling guilty when you know nobody sees...

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Chris Grey · @minus1digit
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I updated the cover of, Orb of Seeing; volume 1 of a tetralogy being published on ....[[|:-)

amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/

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Chris Grey · @minus1digit
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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The only thing better than finishing a book is starting a new one.

Just two chapters in and I can't wait to see where it goes.

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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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Finished up the artwork for this week's newsletter letter.

Some thoughts on reading and writing...

You can subscribe below if you'd like to give it a read when it goes out on Wednesday:
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duanetoops · @duanetoops
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We tell ourselves that we're just one discovery, one uncovering, one goal, one task, one accomplishment, one thing, away from happiness, from contentment, from satisfaction, from rest, from peace. But it never comes, never arrives. We never meet the need...

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Chris Grey · @minus1digit
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Medium - Pinkies are Expensive - Chris Grey (aka minus1digit, PNWMemist) - Medium

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