Friday Favorites #4: Some of the Awesome Posts I Read This Week!

It's that time again. I take notes and save links throughout the week of the things I read that really stick with me and post about them on Fridays. If the link I've posted is really too old to vote on, please consider visiting some of the author's other works and see if anything resonates with you.

I've been struggling with a lot of my own internal stuff this week, and I think that some of my picks reflect that. I guess I just related to or maybe was drawn to things that made me feel less alone. Here's hoping you can find some new blogs to follow yourself!

Thanks for reading.

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@jealousyjane

This looks like it will be a great series. This writer is so open and honest with her writing, I really look forward to seeing what she has to say about being an empath. It’s something that I’ve somewhat recently come to realize about myself (my husband has always told me that I’m very empathetic, but I think it took me a longer time to realize that the description of “empath” was so fitting.

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@jaynie

Then, I happened to also stumble upon this post about having a child who is an empath (and I need to remember to send this link to my daughter as well!)

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@geekorner

Poetry isn’t often my ‘thing’ but this week I found a couple that really stood out. This is one, on depression, just really hit me. I’ve been struggling with depression a lot lately. I’m tired of winter more than anything, this season doesn’t help. At any rate, this poem was shared on the Isle of Write discord and the comments in the chat caught my eye because they were discussing how the “Rules” shouldn’t overtake your writing and creativity. Of course I had to go read it and I am so glad I did. I encourage you to give it a read. It really resonated with me.
https://steemit.com/poetry/@geekorner/depression-reality-a-poem

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Favorite freewrites:

@raj808

a short five minute freewrite poem that captures so much feeling and… movement. Loved it!

And then AGAIN, I didn't even realize at first that I had chosen poems by the same person. These are really awesome.

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@beemillz

Super intense and amazingly raw freewrite by a writer who really knows how to get their feelings on the page.

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@cizzo

This freewrite really captured the reality that so many of us face (or at least I do!) It really made me think of how often I hesitate and end up choosing to not interact with other people (especially in real life, but even online as well) because of some sort of self inflicted dialogue in my head. It made me want to try and give it a bit of a go next time I have the impulse to approach someone and maybe just having read this will stick in my mind and help me take the step of even simply saying, “Hi, how are you?”

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And my son's freewrite from this week, which not surprisingly (to me, anyway) has a rather intense Sci-Fi theme going on with the prompt "Fumigate":

@knightengale

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And Now, to Brag on My other kids:

@loliboofae

Our middle daughter, Paris, finally got her account verified and has started posting her artwork!

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@abyni

Abyni is posting a new song video every day for a week AND she got her first curie vote! AND she was mentioned on a post by @lk666 on The Horns Up Saloon! today as well!!!

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_{Photos Are my own except in the case of the screenshots, which are directly linked to the accounts they are from. The cover photo is a photo that I took of the artwork by @loliboofae used with persmission.}

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