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Bi-polar

(g) Leanings

Bi-polar (g)Leanings is a website creative journal, posted by Brightfire Woman, which focuses on the public domain works of artists and writers that have historically been known as working with mental illness; her own art, poetry, and her perceptions of living and creating with it and the occassional post concerning medication, treatment and theories.

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. Alot of people never get past this phase; they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out, or you are still in this phase, you gotta know that it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. It's only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You just gotta fight your way through.

Ira Glass

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 12:41AM

An Open Book on the Forest Floor with Blue Green Dream

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An Open Book on the Forest Floor

January 25, 2010

Let the pieces fall

a spiral splash landing

diamonds catching sunlight

sparkling seductions found

chasing after wisdom's pearls

I hunger to lay my head down

devour every bit that ever was

nectar to the tongue

April 15, 2010

It is amusing to me that, we are so unique that the swirls of skin on the tips of our fingers are one of a kind, and yet...we keep trying to make everything an off the rack one size fits all.

August 19, 2010

Functioning above my ability to function

has made me unknown to myself

deeply afraid that I may

extinguish my own flame

not enough oxygen to the brain

running on remote from thinking ahead

aching for my bed

the way I once remember

aching for love.

October 7, 2010

An open book on the forest floor off the beaten path may as well not be written for all the good it does...but the truth is you never know where they are going to build another Walmart store...

I dare say, if you throw one optimist in the pot the whole soup changes, and if you throw in a bunch of optimists you have an eight course meal of delicious intentions.

There are times when nothing can equate with the joy of meaningful conversations. Then there are times when nothing can equate to a breeze in your hair, the sun on your face and the utter silence of a meaningless afternoon.

October 26, 2010

I have learned how to grow rooted in my own blueness,

how to look anyway, knowing what is there

is not what I want to see,

and how to steep my thoughts

like tea sipped through buttery lips

coated with cinnamon and sugar crystals

I have found that pain passes as one mends,

some things are better unbroken

very little is better not well spent,

not the morning sun slept through,

nor the evening cool missed.