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Babylon by Robert Graves
For Day 2 of National Poetry Month, I give you Robert Graves’ “Babylon”: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth… Read more.
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It’s National Poetry Month!
My favorite month after October, National Poetry Month gives me an excuse to overindulge in all of the poetry! I read even more than I… Read more.
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Let’s work more protein into our meals!
Thank you very much to NetGalley and Cider Mill Press for the ARC of Toby Amidor’s new cookbook! Toby Amidor’s cookbook “Healthy Living High-Protein Cookbook”… Read more.
This is the Mask
This is the mask.
My mask.
It hides my scars: The scared girl I was.
The scared woman I am.
The seeker that never finds what she is looking for and wonders if she is even worthy to know.
This is the mask.
My mask.
It lets me pretend
It lets me believe
It lets me feel strong, look strong, be strong.
Until I take it off.
~Nicole Kapise Perkins
“Ornament is not excess, but remembrance of nature.”
— Alphonse Mucha
This is the Mask 