Today's Required Reading: HOW TO GET UNSTUCK

[porphyre]

Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #44: HOW YOU GET UNSTUCK:
[...]I hung up the phone feeling like my sternum had cracked open. Before I could even take a breath, in walked the girl whose mother’s boyfriend repeatedly almost drowned her with the garden hose in the back yard. She sat down in the chair near my desk where all the girls sat narrating

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[_stranger_here]

Hey, you. I love the way you reach, the way you throw yourself into art and creation and love and experience. You're like a kid with that purple crayon, hitting a wall and drawing your own door on it and then walking right through. You are young and these are times you'll look back on and maybe you'll say Oh, I was wandering lost in those years but it all brought me here. And "here" can be all kinds of goodness. You're racking up a lot of people in the world who care about you, and some of us can even be relied on. There are all kinds of ways to live. You're forging your own path, chopping your way through a thick and tangled jungle. More than anything else for now, I wish you good project(s) to work on and people you can trust. The rest of it you already know how to do.

Hugs

[cycnet]

your strength is a sun and a moon and a starry sky combined.

[plaidalicious]

you haven't written anything this raw in a while

i found as i was reading your words how much i missed this part of what you share with the world

if yer free next week, i have tuesday & friday in delta all to myself

[lafinjack]

...my friends ditched when Heart of the World imploded...

At least we tried.

(even though I hate that too, to be trusted but with no one to trust)

Even trying to hide it, to tone it down, people still notice and hang onto you, dragging you down with them when you're already barely treading water.