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@michelleciani

fragments from my daily notebook michelleciani.com

we quietly retraced our steps and stumbled upon hope.



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i bathed in monuments and metaphors and I became whole.



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What matters is to keep writing, to get it all out, whatever it is — gunk or grace — and leave it here, on this field of words.



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the simplicity of brown eggs wrapped in parchment paper, a package tied with twine, lost notes found within the pages of your book.



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you have the freedom

to write



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a mug of coffee: a hopeful stance



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remember what you know,

by heart.



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pages rustle, ink flows across lines, steam rises from a cup of tea balanced on top of notebooks.



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evidence of this life I am living.



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cool sand like velvet underfoot, the sky goes pink. The water is burning cold and a gulp of cormorants form a sloppy V above, never directionless.



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We are always travelling, destination unknown. For as much as we think that we know where we are going, we don’t really know at all. Not for sure. We have an idea, a hope, an inkling. It’s always an exploration.



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random bits i write

(or: somewhere this connects, somehow)



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more like a sense of being than a place.



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I want to love it, allow it, let it blossom; whatever it is that emerges from this page.



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what if it were possible?



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She wanted to give me something — did I want a notebook, maybe?  Como a ti te gusta escribir…



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like sunlight, the words fall slantingly on the page.



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so here I am, openly writing to myself.



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how long has it been since I last typed a letter? how long has it been? too long.



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I get so many ideas when I sit down to journal!



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even when I doubt, somehow, this notebook will lead me there.



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enveloped by the walls of an ancient empire, a canyon of cooked clay and marble.



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I caught a multitude of starlings.



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the sound of my pen running across paper

the rhythm of my hand forming letters

words of meaning to myself.



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plot your writing journey: how did you write yourself here?



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A gentle whisper woven through words



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I can fall in love with almost anywhere.



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remember how it used to snow?



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