HeyJaredThe Cozy Type
Poetry & essays, romantic literature, creativity, wild awakenings by storyteller, artist, creative spirit, Stephanie Dianne.
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Sunday Letter #29 (opens the original)
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Hello Dearest Reader ,I am delighted to write to you today from my favorite cafe where I am enjoying brunch and it’s nearly two in the afternoon. I’m all by myself with a large mug of matcha tea (it is possible my veins might bleed green tea at this point, so why not mainline matcha?). If my only addiction is tea, let me have mugfuls of it! Now I understand why the 19th century French writer Honore de Balzac relied upon his coffee to write, but I do promise I will not exceed fifty cups per day.
Before Faerie Smut, There Was Lady Chatterley’s Lover (opens the original)
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“... the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh.” –D. H. LawrenceWe are in a literary romance renaissance. Modern romantasy novels, such as A Court of Thorns and Roses and House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City) by Sarah J. Maas, and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, are some the hottest-selling spicy fiction mainly due to their sensational “faerie smut” appeal, but consider the novels in the past that were once banned for being too obscene, indecent, and subversive, like Lady Chatterley’s
Love Letters, part 1 (opens the original)
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This essay begins a series I’ve longed to write about: my fascination for handwritten love letters. I’m beginning this in the nineteenth century and will move around through time periods accordingly, not in any particular sequence. I have an affinity with the nineteenth century and have read through many love letters from the Regency era.In this digital age, we have lost the art of handwritten love letters. What was once a way to express tender feelings through the pen and paper is now commonly
How to Manage Heartbreak (opens the original)
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Sunday Letter #28 (opens the original)
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Dear Reader, A new and already dear friend of mine gave me a book as a gift. The book: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte, as it turns out, was so much more than a thoughtful gift. It was the healing salve to my heartbreak. My friend didn’t know that my heart was aching when he came to see me for his own therapy session the other day. Romantic Type is a
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