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Issue 09 | A True Poem Demands A True Life, Unsettling as Devotion, and the Arithmetic Of Worth.

This Is What I Know To Be True {A Journal of Real Life} 01.12.26
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Always Call the Moon by Her True Names (A Small, Holy Method for the Next Step)
On illumination, longing, and writing what is, one small, specific truth at a time
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20 poems, quotes and bits of wisdom for the turn of the year.
When I seem unable to full beauty from the breakdown, i give thanks for the poets who have done it for me
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Forged in the Desert, Raised by the Sea (Embrace the Paradox That Built You)
The ocean in my blood and the desert in my bones: on contradiction, survival, and the multitudes that shape the wild edges of our becoming. Explore the…
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You Are Worthy of the Grand Adventure: My Return to Scotland
A midlife homecoming to ancestral land, creative voice, and self-worth—through grief, lineage, and the magic of saying yes.
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Dear Blood Red September Moon
An eclipse-threaded prayer for honest passage through the September full moon.
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So Mote It Be: A September Invocation
A reckoning, a remembering, and a readiness for what’s to come. A prayer to the season that never leaves me where it found me.
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The Fuckening™: AKA - The one in which she lost her job, lost her house, and moved back in with her ex-husband
The Part That Comes Before The Redemption Arc.
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Fly This Girl as High as You Can Into the Wild Blue
On Grief, Mythic Memory, and the Stories That Let Us Live-A grief-soaked elegy of memory, myth, and magic—this is a story of dragons, tidal loss, and…
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What Remains After the Collapse: The Physics of Becoming and the Stubborn Density of Our Survival
When the center no longer holds, what’s left behind? A lyrical dive into star collapse, neutron stars, and the radiant survival stories we carry in our…
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The Importance of Eruption, the Blue That Might Lead Anywhere, and Making Your Own Life the First Life You Save | What Holds Vol 1
What Holds | Issue One: A counterspell to the disintegration—gathered fragments of song, story, and soul that help the center hold.
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The Center Cannot Hold. But We Do.
A meditation on collapse, continuity, and the center that survives what falls apart (Yeats was right about the systems of the world, but not about us…
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Laid Off: On Becoming Another Casualty of Trump's DOGE Cuts, the Eternal Power of Story, and What the Hell Comes Next
As of today, I can count myself among the hundreds of thousands of federal government (and federal government adjacent) employees who have become…
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