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I think it’s time we finally started believing in what we already know.
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Some days I don’t feel like searching [through clover] for [four-leaf] metaphors. I want to tell this story straight, for once–but I honestly don’t know how. As it is, can you glimpse it, love? Could it be hiding, maybe, in the spaces between my words?
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Fact I need to get used to: I have absolutely no idea how to get the horse to drink the water—I only know what doesn’t work.
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inMy favorite thing these days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
It’s vital to the human creation of art, yes?
The fact of randomness (and I may as well posit it as a fact, because I don’t know how to know differently) is the miracle from which we all spring, and the foundation upholding everything we feel, think, do, create. We needn’t even learn–we are born to know how–to take advantage of random events (“coincidences,” with all that word’s various connotations), insofar as we’re able (and willing?) to. Just seconds after our birth, among the otherwise “meaningless” distortions of a suddenly visual, almost certainly terrifying world, our eyes are somehow and irresistibly drawn to the life-saving pattern of our mother’s face. We feel better; with muscles we’ve never used before, we strain to reach her. I think it’s like this: She’s our first “Jesus-in-a-piece-of-toast.” She’s our first “Face on Mars.” (In my own private parlance, she’s the “pirate in the bathroom tile”) Two eyes, one nose, one mouth (and, in the pirate’s case [but probably not the mother’s], an eye-patch and a droopy mustache). That simple visual pattern becomes our first lullabye, our first fable, our primal surrender to the comfort of the arbitrary.
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There’s no “There’s.” There’s no “just”. There’s just “is”. (July, 2013)
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Reminder to my self: I’m allowed to want something to the exact degree I’m willing to let it go.
August, 2013
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Every day, before I start to write, I pre-forgive myself.
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12 Tuesday Nov 2013
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We live each other’s lives, from deep within our own, every day; it’s time we noticed this already.
— is this anything (@nancycoughlin) October 9, 2013
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The trick is to find miracles in what may well be–I honestly don’t know how to know– randomness.
— is this anything (@nancycoughlin) October 9, 2013
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inJust believing you’re lucky makes you lucky. Try it and see. I myself have been lucky all my life. As, in fact, have we all.
— is this anything (@nancycoughlin) November 11, 2013