#gettingbacktowriting

[arendon25]

#bestgiftever #love #totoro #brooklyn #nyc #gettingbacktowriting #writingagain #studioghibli @haroldf415 (at Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)

[kiaraaudrey]

Finding my voice

I heard this line from IssaRae's YouTube series "First" and was so taken by it, I had to stop and write it down.

"...I tell my students all the time that you have three consciousness. You have your head which is what you think. You have your heart which is what you feel. And you have your deep, which is what you intuitively know. Your deep is always truthful and it's always honest because it's not affected by logic or emotion. So write from your deep."

 I find myself writing down a lot of things lately. Since I was a kid, I have always had a diary, a journal, some type of outlet that would just allow me to write and BE. When I see some of those literary materials now, I cringe at what I used to say because it just shows me who I once was, searching for who I wanted to be. Today, writing is like therapy for me. I write to take my mind off of the present and create my own realities. I write to reflect on the things that made me stop and wonder or bothered me that day. Sometimes I write just to read my own thoughts. But, writing more than anything makes me aware of my voice. The voice I don't always use because I am/was afraid the words in my head won't sound right when I say them out loud. My words give me more vision and clarity than anything I could dream or try to build with my hands. 

Writing is helping to ignite the dreams I had silenced, when I didn't think my voice was loud enough.

[cooking-with-tirzah]

Sometimes your heart needs time to accept What your mind already knows But what do you do with all the love When you finally let go? Do you tell yourself it never existed Or that you just out grew each other What is a plausible excuse To finally forget one another? How do you say goodbye When your hearts still filled with hope You know in your head that nothing's different But it's hard for you to cope No more "good mornings" or "thinking of yous" You are left alone with you're thoughts You're "what ifs" and "did we give up too soons" How do you know this is the right decision When will that moment come That says it's alright to move forward And that what he had is done Sometimes your heart needs time to accept What your mind has made clear It's not the love that's holding you back It's actually the fear.... By: Chanee A. Thurston #tirzahpoems #untitled #olderwork #gettingbacktowriting