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Literature reminds us to play big in the world because we don't contend with small things. Our concern is nothing less than the human condition: love, fear, death, joy, beauty, violence, justice and its absence, freedom and the lack of it. These are not little things. We can't be

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Alberto Rios, “Immigrant Centuries” These are immigrant times And the lines are long.

"There are trees all over the world. Gravity too. Wherever my body goes, there my thoughts go as well, even if there is still an ocean between them." "Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike" by MM Kaufman, new flash fiction out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2025/07/11/div…

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"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep." -Salman Rushdie

with all this news, it's time for a comfort movie. "Gilda" for the 200th time! what's your comfort movie?

Publishing with Consequence was one of the nicest experiences of my writing career so far. I also read for Consequence for a while, and Matthew is such a wonderful person, so dedicated to the magazine. I can't wait to listen to this podcast.

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Dreaming, for some artists, is the irresistible temptation. “What seems to me the highest and most difficult achievement of Art,” Flaubert wrote…”is not to make us laugh or cry, not to arouse our lust or rage, but to do what nature does—that is, to set us to dreaming” Nabokov

birthday opera date for la boheme last night! her first opera with wine. how did this even happen?

oh there IS a god! i got the pretty very nice flat!!!

ok really it's the first cold day and i am over it! warm home on the way!

Ok Mommas with grown babies! please send words of wisdom! my baby girl is 21 and in love and moving in with the swertheart situation and i am thrilled for her!! she's happy yay!!! i even have a new apartment and DON'T be ridiculous HOW WILL I LIVE WITHOUT HER JUST HOW?!!!

The comedy of the looking for the line you can't cross and crossing it! SNL jokes that should have been banned but somehow these two can pull it off--colin jost and michael che. youtu.be/lniok1h8uUw?si…

boxes are moved! the new apartment is ready!!!