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🧵Thursday Thread: How Can We Listen Across Species?
If the world gives itself to our imaginations, the world's non-human animals are a huge part of that gift. Have you had a special…
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🧵Thursday Thread: How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?
Mother's Day is on the horizon again, and it's a complicated day for many of us. My mother doesn't speak to me, but I am also a mother and a nana. So…
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🧵Thursday Thread: When They Fight & When They Sing
Tell us about the last time you sang to yourself? And to another? Or were sung to? And if you can’t remember, tell us about that, too.
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🧵Thursday Thread: "It's complicated!" ... how would you describe your relationship with your body right now?
It can be so hard to live in a body, even a "typical" or "healthy" one; the urges, the the secretions, the aches, the strangeness. But, also, our bodies…
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🧵Thursday Thread: Quick, quick! Name a film (or two) that left a deep impression on you recently, and why?
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams. It's a language made of image." ~Frederico Fellini
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🧵Thursday Thread: What Makes You YOU?
“I learned that if I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” ~Audre Lorde
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🧵Thursday Thread: Which Book or Piece of Writing Changed Your Life?
Anna Quindlen said, "In books I have traveled not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was & what I might dare to dream about my world…
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🧵Thursday Thread: What is your earliest childhood memory, and how does it influence who you are today?
Annie Dillard said, "Childhood memories are like breadcrumbs, leading us back to the essence of who we are." Let's follow the trail today, see what we…
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🧵Thursday Thread: “The useless days will add up to something" ~Cheryl Strayed
Let's say you could reach through the years to your younger self. What would you say to comfort, encourage, forewarn that tender and possibly confused…
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🧵Thursday Thread: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all" ~Helen Keller
What's The Biggest Risk You've Ever Taken In Your Life, And How Did It Turn Out?
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🧵Thursday Thread: Writing Truer Truths
What exactly is "truth" in creative writing, and how do you pin it to the page?
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🧵Thursday Thread: Naming Our Dream
What Do You Most Want From Your Writing Life?
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