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Why can't you meet your own gaze?
the artist as witness
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Caitlin Ellis
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Girl Mossing in 2024 (on grounding, nourishing, and healing )
on grounding, nourishing, and healing
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Welcome to the Coven...
A welcome thread for paid subscribers ❧ When I imagine us together — ruminators and brooders, thoughts dribbling from the tips of our tongues — …
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25 Lessons in 25 Years
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My Story: Self-Publishing a Poetry Collection at 23
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Woman Is Vital.
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August 31st
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The World is Cruel, But We Are Artists
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Girl Mossing in 2024 (on grounding, nourishing, and healing )
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I Am Not Always Brave
a prose poem of sorts
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Forget the Path. Follow the Desire Lines.
on following my gut
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An Ambitious Winter TBR
ft. books on love/craft/mortality/poetry
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My Year of Rot and Rumination // From Budding to Blooming
one year and 1400 ruminators later
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25 Lessons in 25 Years
from someone existing quietly
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To the Un-Trained Eye
finding meaning in the mundane
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Growing Pains
on changing, failing, and trying to do it all
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The World is Cruel, But We Are Artists
art in the age of mass-consumption
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Poetry

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I Am Not Always Brave
a prose poem of sorts
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Woman Is Vital.
a poem. a vociferation.
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Caitlin Ellis
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THERE IS NO END...
We do not remember days, we remember moments… — Cesare Pavese We are changing. We are evolving. We are surrendering. … Next Sunday, we return to our…
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August 31st
a poem
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Field Notes from Italy
Ruminations ❧ Letter 3
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