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dk-thrive · 2 hours
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I need you...
Tell no one about this, I command because it is so hard for me to say I need you. Even when it is right there, throbbing beneath my chest: I need you, I need you, I need you.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 9 hours
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No, I say. You hear a train coming.
Does it feel like you have been run over by a train? This, from the on-call psychiatrist... No, I say. You hear a train coming.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 12 hours
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I think, this might be all there is.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 16 hours
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The greatest asset you can have is a steely patience, an ever-present calm
"Here's what no one can teach--except time, I guess. Time can teach you this: The greatest asset you can have is a steely patience, an ever-present calm, as the money disappears; the studio caves; the star bails; the writer goes into hiding; the stock market collapses; your standing in the community withers. And you just calmly keep making notes or rehearsing or believing--whatever it is you do to maintain a belief in yourself and your work. And very few people have this, and I think that everyone who has had a long career--full of all this insanity and uncertainty--has this gift. It can be developed, but no one teaches it to you or tells you where to go buy it or study it. You have to dig it out of yourself."
— Arthur Penn, from an Interview with James Grissom/2006 in FB, March 21, 2021 (via Alive on All Channels)
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dk-thrive · 19 hours
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Always, he took care of me.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 21 hours
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Twilight. 46° F, with fog and rain. 5:35 to 6:00 am. March 28, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)
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dk-thrive · 23 hours
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You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. And anyway it’s the same old story– a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world.
— Mary Oliver, from "Dogfish" in “New and Selected Poems" (Beacon Press, 1992) (via Make Believe Boutique)
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dk-thrive · 1 day
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The bed was uncomfortable. I was heavy. I was bricks. Above the bed, the ceiling and the stars. Below the bed the floor, the earth, then out the other side and stars. I fell in all directions.
— Richard Siken, from "I Do Know Some Things" (2025) from an excerpt in Bomb Magazine, March 15, 2024. Siken began writing while recovering his language, mobility, and sense of self in the aftermath of a stroke. (via Alive on All Channels)
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dk-thrive · 1 day
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What might be wind. What might be breath. What is already gone.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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Double Rainbow
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Double Rainbow. 6:46 pm. March 27 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)
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dk-thrive · 2 days
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It is not that I don’t know I love him, it is that I want to see around the corner of the universe, to know it will all last.
For the first year Kurtis and I date, I keep asking RJ: How do you know if you love somebody? It is not that I don’t know I love him, it is that I want to see around the corner of the universe, to know it will all last.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 2 days
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Afraid to live, afraid to die, afraid of how much there is to fear: it all rushes through my body.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 2 days
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We would never say goodbye. He always said, See you soon, and I always responded, Be safe, love you.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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dk-thrive · 2 days
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Twilight. 40° F. 6:55 am. March 27, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)
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Twilight. 40° F. 5:45 to 6:00 am. March 27, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)
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dk-thrive · 2 days
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, “Gift from the Sea” (Pantheon Books, 1955)
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dk-thrive · 2 days
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I have become someone I do not understand, that others do not understand. I do not know the right way to be anymore.
— Amy Lin, Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin (Zibby Books, March 5, 2024)
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