HeyJaredAmy Ball
With the tiniest of hammers, transforming by millimeters. Wants to pet your dog, read your book, be in the woods. Piñatas, poems, and stained glass windows. Strong enough to hold the bend towards justice. Wants to learn your name.
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Encouragement (opens the original)
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I was on a random side street in mid-city Los Angeles when I made the rare decision to hang up a Lost Joy poster during the day. As I was trying to get it hung up quickly, I heard a noisy group of people getting out of yoga class down the block. With an extra jolt of adrenaline, I quickly got the poster taped to the pole and hopped into my car just before they spotted me.[IF YOU HAVEN’T READ PART ONE OF THIS STORY, CLICK HERE FIRST:}I’m not sure if this message came from that daytime poster, but
Joy. Hope. Courage. (opens the original)
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It can be hard to find joy. Sometimes a stranger (or a strange project) can help. But I have a secret about joy. But before that story, the context:I am chipping away at a revision of a fiction novel that I started over twenty years ago. It began as a small part of a silly email and has now become an emerging adult science fiction novel that has been through three drafts and a development edit. The deadlines and encouragement of my writers group are the only reason I’m still writing it at all. I
We're Gonna Freakin' F*cking Love This (opens the original)
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In the mid/late 90s I was working at the Buffalo Exchange on Capitol Hill in Seattle, sorting through peoples’ used clothing, deciding what items to buy (and which items to subtly set aside for myself to purchase before they even hit the racks). I don’t remember how urgent messages got passed in those days — this was well before cell phones and texting — but somehow, the word was out that Ani was in the neighborhood. Yes, that Ani. This Substack is reader-supported. To
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