Oil Pastel of Woman's Mouth with Vines and the words "above suffering" showing the value of poetry as protest from Kymberlee della Luce
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The Value of Poetry as Protest and Ending Cultural Gaslighting (#5)

In this episode, I reveal some inspirations and talk about the value of poetry as protest, the worth of women and mothers, and how the myths of Henry David Thoreau and Adam Smith support cultural gaslighting.

i make pretty messes
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i make pretty messes

All of the paradox and contradictions. I always wished I could make pretty things.  I wish I was a pretty thing. But what’s true is I am messy and complicated. I make more messes. I make pretty messes. I’ve been doing some inner calibration lately and ran across this journal entry from earlier this year. …

shoot me in the back if you must
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shoot me in the back if you must

I don’t remember when it happened exactly, but it did.  I was probably really young and impressionable at the time and I drank it in:  The criticism and judgments of others, the conditional acceptance that comes with colonizing.   I heard things like:  Be like me and I’ll like you. Don’t be too much of…

it’s not about being different, it’s about being
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it’s not about being different, it’s about being

Last week, I wrote about the chaos of the Discomfort Monster.  This week, it’s a different monster all together:  The Gnarly Judgement Monster.  We all have those people in our lives that are like Voldemort in Harry Potter:  He Who Shall Not Be Named.  They are the people that have criticized us or treated us…