Nadia Daniels-Moehle
The days are being swallowed by night. In this dark, everything is quiet and I can feel a shifting, squirming anticipation like a theater full of people before the curtain goes up, before the projector turns on. William Shakespeare quipped that “a great cause of the night is lack of the sun” and just as…
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As a child, my house was full of maps–on the walls, tucked into folders, printed onto pillows. I would run my little fingers over them, connecting place to place, but I always preferred to navigate by imagination. I would begin with the empty space just behind my eyelids. My imagination fleshed out the world around…
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“A year seems like a lot of time now at this end—it isn’t.” Audre Lorde “Letter to Pat Parker, December 6, 1985” Sitting in a warm room lined with books, I stare through the window and into the yellow forest, into a year that is just as murky as my tangled-up thoughts. I don’t know…
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One Year Later Part 3: The End Acrylic on canvas A project is nearly born, only a few more words, a few more strokes of brush on canvas, and CognEYEzant:365 will be finished. Finished. This week, as I sat down to write and reflect on the end of this gargantuan, year-long project CognEYEzant:365, I realized…
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Hopeful Burning: Inspired by Jesmyn Ward’s Quote, “I burn, and I hope.” Ink on paper Just over one year ago “The Fire This Time”, a collection of essays and poems edited by author Jesmyn Ward, lit a fire within me. A fire kindled with just five words, “I burn, and I hope.” Just over one…
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Organic Interbeing: Inspired by bell hooks’ Quote “interbeing and interdependency as the organic relationship of all living things”* Ink on paper When I first read bell hook’s writing, her words slipped past my fingers as the pages turned, her words seeped into me. Eleven words in hooks’ book The Will to Change reminded me that…
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