Secondhand Magic

I'm a writer, musician, witch currently residing in New Orleans ((I'm called Noelle)) Part of me is gentle and settling, the other is restless and wandering. I’m usually a little bit here and mostly somewhere else. I see magic all around me. words / things my eyes see / wisdom / music / fever dreams Give me a topic and I’ll write you a poem

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The X-Files, chimera (7x16) / instagram.

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I don’t know how I got so lucky.

I am humbled by true love

I am humbled by loving you.

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I’ve been getting back into drawing. Thinking about necessary contradiction, thinking about duality in all things.

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It’s hot in Louisiana

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[neonalchemy]

““Society is collapsing, and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.”

— Russell Brand (via neonalchemy)

[artemisiasea]

“Recognizing this reality- that the reaction doesn’t belong to you- is the only sane way to create. If people enjoy what you’ve created, terrific. If people ignore what you’ve created, too bad. If people misunderstand what you’ve created, don’t sweat it. And what if people absolutely hate what you’ve created? What if people attack you with savage vitriol, and insult your intelligence, and malign your motives, and drag your good name through the mud? Just smile sweetly and suggest- as politely as you possibly can- that they go make their own fucking art. Then stubbornly continue making yours.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

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“Creativity is sacred, and it is not sacred. What we make matters enormously, and it doesn’t matter at all.  We toil alone, and we are accompanied by spirits.  We are terrified, and we are brave.  Art is a crushing chore and a wonderful privilege.  Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us.  Make space for all these paradoxes to be equally true inside your soul, and I promise you can make anything.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic 

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The end of the world.

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My best friend Will.

Co-founder of the Front Porch Gin and Gossip Sunrise Society.

Preparing to clutch our pearls over gin fizz’s on a lazy Louisiana Sunday.

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The dream goes on.

Examining past lives within this life these days.

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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe (via mrsfscottfitzgerald)

[days-of-reading]

Wayne Koestenbaum, Humiliation

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“People think we're lucky, but we have learned how to use our curses”

-Siva

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New Orleans

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In Nashville, last weekend