…actually, why not?
What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?
Prio 1: Enjoy existence.
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When you grab a snack or get another cup of coffee: do a breathing exercise as well.
Take a moment to recalibrate.
You are here. It is now.
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We are collectively hurtling through space while circling a star.
We arrive with ourselves, we leave with ourselves.
Everything else is details.
#monday
What profession do you admire most and why?
Micromanager [irate]: Where’s Employee XYZ?!
Office Warhorse [tired]: No idea.
Manager [indignant]: But the Office Thing!
Warhorse [calmly]: Did they meet the deadline to Project 123?
Manager [grudgingly]: Yes.
Warhorse [interested]: Can you fire them?
Manager [annoyed]: No.
Warhorse [impressed]: They won’t show up.
Manager [exasperated]: Why?
Warhorse [wistful]: Because they have achieved perfection.
#Monday
What makes a teacher great?
Teaching is like stand-up, except the audience can’t leave.
A good teacher listens to what is not being said.
A good teacher is a tour guide to the world, with niche interests.
A good teacher knows their subject so well, they can admit to their own ignorance.
A good teacher remembers their students are young humans growing, learning, developing.
A good teacher understands that being liked and being respected are two different things. And that liked and respected often overlap in the best of them.
#monday
What fears have you overcome and how?
Perfectionism keeps you stuck in “what if”s.
Make mistakes, accept the frustration, try again.
#writing
Have you ever broken a bone?
Agent: Boss?
Boss: What is it this time.
Agent: Grey’s Anatomy, sir.
Boss: What?
Agent: New code, sir. For when it gets biological.
Boss: Did Wilford think that up?
Agent: It seems so, sir.
Boss: Naturally. Contact Mission Control.
Agent: Yes, sir.
#monday
Words, images & collages tossed from a window.
Essays, notes & interviews on why literary fiction matters to human living
small press. great publishing.
but don't take my word for it
Home hub & scribble space of Prose Writer & Poet Kristiane Weeks-Rogers (she/hers), author of poetry collection: 'Self-Anointment with Lemons'.
A journey from one end of the bookshelf to the other
three good words 