Write about an insecurity you have or once had Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. Not even me. you got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. you want something? Go get it. Period. ..Will Smith, The Pursuit … Continue reading »
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Week Forty-five: Amanda Kasper
Write about anything. closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world… so gather up your jackets, move it to the exits I hope you have found a friend closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end [semisonic, closing time] Last week, I took down the public blog … Continue reading »
Week Forty-four: Amanda Kasper
What is the one thing that would be a relationship breaker for you? “If you’ve lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn’t – you will never understand.” ..Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller.. I’ve lived a lot of life in my nearly … Continue reading »
Week Forty-three: Amanda Kasper
What did you do growing up that got you into trouble? To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings Well, a long time ago, … Continue reading »
Week Forty-two: Amanda Kasper
Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad but it turned out to be for the best? “Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence. And absence to value presence.” -Unknown This is perhaps the first prompt in a … Continue reading »
Week Forty-one: Amanda Kasper
List the five people you’d like to meet, and why. “In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, & it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we … Continue reading »
Week Forty: Amanda Kasper
At your deepest level, what do you most want to know in your lifetime? You get up. Take a shower. Catch your breath. Force yourself to eat something. Put on your sassiest lipstick. Remind yourself to breathe. Say hello. Hold your head high. Be yourself. Say Goodbye. Send along your love. Give yourself some … Continue reading »
Week Thirty-nine: Amanda Kasper
How did you learn what it meant to be a man/woman? I cannot make you understand I cannot make anyone understand What is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. -Franz Kafka In Judaism, I became a woman when I turned 13, and was Bat Mitzvah’ed at our local temple. After years … Continue reading »
Week Thirty-eight: Amanda Kasper
When was the last time you were nervous? “We’re scared of the strangest things, yet we regret them with more shame, blame, fame, we’re insane. When all we need is to think, try, reach, love, lift up, and so is it so hard just to let go & know you’re better off living inside out. … Continue reading »
Week Thirty-seven: Amanda Kasper
What was the first thing you bought with your own money? I started working when I was just thirteen. I began teaching Sunday school as an aid to the second grade teacher, shortly after I was Bat Mitzvahed. I think I made $15/class, for three classes each Sunday. Shortly after I turned 15, I got … Continue reading »
