Inquisitive Phoenix

An interdisciplinary compendium blending cultural and real world inspiration related to justice, equity, and diversity. An amalgamation of geeky passions, visual and written storytelling across mediums. A celebration of life.

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#AccessibilityDescription The poem reads as follows: My heart has many open rooms, Some which have yet to ever see The company of another soul, Some which are reserved for the solitude I keep And some which long for the laughter Which once bounced off their walls Like the light that streams through their windows Warming soul, skin, and smile. These latter rooms are the ones In which I revisit the memories of our company From the time before distance unfolded Exponentially As A Measure and means of love and fear Wellness and concern, and in these rooms I Hope we may yet be reunited again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #poetry #friends #memory #writing #writersofinstagram #CreativeWriting #covid19writing #solitude #introverts #writersoftumblr #longing #love #accessibility https://www.instagram.com/p/CBydqlMgUqw/?igshid=15ovizv2nc4js

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laughter-lit rooms my heart has many open rooms some which have yet to ever seethe company of another soul…

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Sanctuary

Let us build sanctuary in the spaces between beats and our breaths, amidst the tides of time washing through our restless bodies Storms roll in over the ocean, and there is a wild beauty in the chaos of lightning-lit clouds and the tumult of thundering rain ~ I’ll be your illuminated moon by day and night, however the wind carries the clouds, if you will be my lighthouse on wind and water worn cliffs May the…

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there is space to dance

there is space to dance

I’ve always wanted to find the words to capture the sliver of peace that Artemis carries through the night, like one of her gleaming silver arrows. And I’ve also had a love-hate relationship with short poetry, especially single stanzas, because they leave me wanting more. And yet here they meet in the middle.

1. Do you know the sinuous allure of night between the whisper of turning pages and the…

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Write like you're running out of time | An ode to relentless muse

Write like you’re running out of time | An ode to relentless muse

“Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.”

Suggested listening: A Lovely Place to Be by Patrick O’Hearn (instrumental)

The urgency of the song swells like the beating of a racing heart. Like your memory of racing the last several yards as a child, pitted against your peers, for sweet bragging rights, the thrum of blood in your ears…

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Weaving Wood

Siren song of shadowed wood

Summer darts past spring

the owl, the cricket, and lilting breeze

arrive in tumbling curtains, time askew

while children, we all with restless yearning free- fall in suspended animation

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Depletion & Rejuvenation

I started this last week and, on the conclusion of my birthday, I circle back to it as I’ve found a swell. The next several paragraphs are “From Then”. And the I return to where I am now. I find it a better exercise now to see how much of this thought & emotion sticks around than to immediately give it credence.

From Then (Week of March 23rd)

I’ve been feeling depleted lately from many sources.…

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Midnight Harbour

Recently I affirmed that a friends’ commitment to writing a short story a day had sparked my own creativity and, in turn, I decided to try to dance with my muse once a day. This is the fruit. 

Today, inspired by Amanda Palmer’s latest newsletter and current events, I wrote this over breakfast. Enforced vulnerability and isolation will always be anxiety-inducing. In the larger sense, our nature, to…

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SWR, Part 2/5: 10 reasons every whitewater paddler should take a swift-water rescue course.

SWR, Part 2/5: 10 reasons every whitewater paddler should take a swift-water rescue course.

Paddling without swift-water rescue training is like driving without a spare tire and jack, or a cell-phone. You can be a beginner or have decades of skill under your belt… Other elements in the environment will remain beyond your control. Accidents can happen, and sometimes it’s not a matter of skill, but rather a mix of luck and preparedness.

I did not learn of the discipline of swift-water…

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Swiftwater Rescue: Paddlers’ SOS (Part 1/5) "It’s not that experiencing closeness, emotionally or physically, to death necessarily makes one 'feel alive,' but rather that a near death experience – your own, or one you witness – can impart a greater awareness of the vulnerability of life" …

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Meet the Dmnocks, 2/2

Meet the Dmnocks, 2/2

In the world known as Arbon (land of dragons, wind, and lunar triumvirate),meet the dmnocks, nature’s magical munching recyclers. The dmnocks are a creature feature from my Project 52, sharing both my original photography and 52 new sci-fi or fantasy world-building creations by the end of the year. The dmnocks are little critters that are variants of the broader classification that include tree…

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World of Arbon: Meet the dmnocks

World of Arbon: Meet the dmnocks

To every planet, there belongs its critters, creatures, and  beings. Beings, not beasts. It’s a very bipedal tendency to burden creatures with the label of beasts without considering what makes a beast a bit different than a being. Creeping, soaring, flittering, hurtling; by wing, bipedal, by four, by eight…. What makes a beast? What is it to be a being? And what is in between? Imagine a world…

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Project 52: World 1, Arbon

Project 52: World 1, Arbon

Project 52 is a self-designed creative series in which I create one new sci-fi or fantasy world every week, or in the case of 2018, six worlds a week since I didn’t begin until nine weeks from the end of the year.

Arbon (ahr-bahn), a planet in a corner of a forgotten galaxy, orbiting a bright star, with three moons of its own.

Three moons which ancient cultures, by their modern standards,…

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Arbon

 Arbon (ahr-bahn), a planet in a corner of a galaxy orbiting a bright star.

Three moons which ancient cultures, by their modern standards, worshiped as the triplets of the all-mighty sun goddess. Accordingly each moon was honored with its own seasonal festival.

Luo, between winter and spring at the first signs of ice-melt but before any such greenery, other than the ever green winter guard trees,…

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I feel like everyone but Slytherins hate their prefect lol I mean… It’s not that he doesn’t complain about the house points but we kind of respect his attitude and perfect cheekbones and sort of want his approval?

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Are you proud of me @ask-felix-rosier? I got you 4,258 House Points as a present! 😏

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This is slytherwin. Also, as a Slytherin, MC is the most Gryffindor Slytherin to ever have walked. It’s like if Harry Potter (duh) were a Slytherin. Slytherin is not inherently eveil. It’s about how you choose to wield your ambition, for good. It’s like the super soldier serum. It makes the good great and the bad evil. 

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Merula: i could kill you if i wanted too .

MC: yeah? so could another human being.

Merula:

MC: so could a dog.

Merula:

MC: so could a dedicated duck.

Merula:

MC: you aren’t special, merula.

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Down with stock baddies!