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The Most Inspiring Things I've Digested This Week

The Most Inspiring Things I've Digested This Week

"I wake up and it breaks my heart..."

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Mar 17, 2023
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“It didn’t take me long to learn that the discipline or practice of writing these essays occasioned a kind of delight radar. Or maybe it was more like the development of a delight muscle. Something that implies that the more you study delight, the more delight there is to study.”—Ross Gay, The Book of Delights

Currently reading: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Just finished (and loved more than I am able to verbalize): Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel - Kindle edition by Armfield, Julia.  Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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I’m in a desperate search for inspiration lately, looking for hidden fortunes and messages and signs everywhere I go.

Which means I’m probably ready for Spring Break. Which means I’ve hit that point in the semester where I know delight and joy are hiding out there but I have to look harder to find it.

On the off chance that you are feeling the same way, I thought I’d share a few writerly pieces of inspiration that I found essential to my survival recently.

(Which also means I’m accepting inspiration donations—please and thank you).

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