Does anybody here share their written works on #substack ?
#booksky #writersky #essays #writing
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Sometimes I just feel so scared for the world, but whenever I do, I just replay these two lines I wrote like a mantra in my head.

open.substack.com/pub/inkedbet... #writersky #booksky

you may stitch our mouths
you may slice our tongues
but we will find a way to speak
and there will be
watermelons under the olive trees

11 Nov 2023

Been rereading Man's Search for Meaning this January, and I think many of us can attest to the highlighted passage. It reminded me of what I wrote about my father, who passed away before I was born. 💙📚You can read it here: inkedbetween.substack.com/p/sorrow-of-... :) #booksky

on threading the fine lines of living with trauma, anxiety, depression, and other kinds of suffering open.substack.com/pub/inkedbet... #substack #writing

"so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love" - Refaat Alareer

"I wanted to let my gums bleed if only to gnash my teeth against untangling the chains. I wanted to hold my fear in my hands, turn it into acid if only to corrode the metallic whip before it flails. But the thing was on and on; it was a luckless fight." #writingcommunity

Now I was the one held captive by this thing; chained by illness, whipped by memories, and stabbed by the suddenness of its assault. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop! But the thing didn’t.

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"Love is wherever. Even with a closed door where behind it is only one of us left. I thought in doing so I am abandoning love there, twisting the knob with the slightest force so the latch won’t click and wake you. But I carry it with me wherever I go."
open.substack.com/pub/inkedbet... #booksky

"To forgive myself first for dropping the call the first time I heard, 9-1-1 what’s your emergency; for taking too long to call again. To recognize my emergencies. To teach myself to be comfortable asking for help because we can’t survive without each other."
open.substack.com/pub/inkedbet...

For those who have drawers in their minds they'd rather not visit, but know very well what's inside. We tend to forget but we're also good at remembering.
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"If I were to die tomorrow, I don't want my last thought to be a realization that I just spent the last one-third of my day in a job I'm unhappy with." open.substack.com/pub/inkedbet...