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Emma Liles's avatar

Ahhh this is multidimensional brilliance refracted and reflected. Such flow. Many lines were my favorite, although: “An outer lushness born from an inner cultivation process,” takes the cake for me 🤌🏼✨

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Nida Elley's avatar

This has stayed with me for the past few days. I can relate to the prophesying. I wrote a short story once before becoming a mother, about the precious connection between a depressive mother and her struggling son, and years later, I was in that same position. I wrote about falling in love with a younger man, and years later, it happened. Of course, I wrote my misery in journals for years before I decided to leave my marriage - that seemed more like me working up the courage to do so, rather than prophecy. But there are so many examples of how my fiction has informed my reality, in a completely unconscious way. Now that I’m conscious of it though, I wonder how to harness this power. I feel a tenuous grasp over this already, but it’s hard to articulate, the way you, so evocatively, do. Your essay’s got my mental gears churning, but I know that’s also my head’s desire to always lord it over my heart. And even if I do crack the code of manifesting my desire, I don’t think I can do that until I wholeheartedly believe that I am worthy of it. Sorry, I know I’m rambling. But your essay’s got me thinking. Oh, how I love the flair and focus of your writing!❤️

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