Donna May

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

Birthday of William Faulkner, BTD in 1897. Nobel Prize Winner; Banned Book Author (all the best creatives are, right?)

#WilliamFaulkner #Writers #BTD

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Well deserved. Bravo 🙌

Synchronicity is Jung’s coinage for what we can call ‘meaningful coincidence’, when the inner and outer worlds reflect each other with such accuracy and obvious meaning that to resort to mere coincidence as an explanation is useless.~Gary Lachman, 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark.~Marie-Louise von Franz

Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.

“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”

@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
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According to Jung, metaphor affects the person on three levels: the mental level on which we interpret meaning, the imaginative level, where the actual transforming power resides, and the emotional level connected to the feelings embodied in the metaphor. ~Ralph Earle

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

If we have identified too closely with the light, have too idealized an image of ourselves, then our shadow will surely come up and hit us on the backside. The same is true if we have identified with our negative side. Either position is a denial of our wholeness.~Marion Woodman

We ❤️ Kate DiCamillo

Why do you love Little Free Libraries?

As English poet W.H. Auden put it in “𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴”: “We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.~Richard Rohr, 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳

I am indeed convinced that creative imagination is the only primordial phenomenon accessible to us, the real Ground of the psyche, the only immediate reality.~CG Jung, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘎 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨, 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘐

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‘Take a daily walk with grace, comrades, out on the margins to the blessed misfit mystic untamed place.’

Why So Many MIT Students Are Writing Poetry A professor at the Institute discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. What might it mean for the future of AI?

An MIT literature professor discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. Joshua Bennett on what this means for the future of AI and why poetry matters in a world ruled by tech:

Feed Your Head Even now, especially now, your curiosity is powerful.

NEW WRITING:

"What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?" 🧪

Circular ceramuc vase with various patterns and symbols in black, white, orange and pink

Kiva-step vase, 1993, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt

When you go into the body you encounter your history and all that may be dwelling there. The body is the best authentic text that we have, and carries the burdens that our psyche has repressed until they can be brought to consciousness.~Tina Stromsted

A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is always ambiguous. A dream never says "you ought" or "this is the truth." It presents an image and it is up to us to draw conclusions.~CG Jung

From a book of his? As always, thank you for the postings you bring to us 🦋

“That's what I mean by an air-bag culture. We are so rich and our egos so strong in our gated communities, in our gated selves, that we're afraid of everything: disease, old age, different colored people, poor people, change of any sort. We're terribly afraid. -James Hillman

“To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.”~Leonard Cohen, 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, 1995

Word 'Creativity' written in different colours, surrounded by many coloured pencils

“Trust the creative process. You are a walking, breathing mass of possibilities and potential.”
― Donna Goddard
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings that takes its origin from emotion, recollected in tranquillity.

~William Wordsworth

Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

Researchers Press Pause on AI Therapy Bot After Reports of AI Psychosis in Similar Products A vitiligo research group has "hit pause" on its forthcoming AI therapy bot after learning how, well, crazy other chatbots have made people.

"Empathy without accountability isn’t therapy."

At the time of his writing the Red Book Jung wanted to find out what happened when he switched off ordinary consciousness and allowed expression to remote parts of his psyche. The “spirit of the depths” pointed him toward the recovery of his soul.~Murray Stein, 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨’𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦

Thank you for taking time to respond 🦋

Bea, did Jung write/talk about extreme fundamentalist religions?