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A map to new places
A quick note about where to find me these days
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Jen Myers
April 2021
16 April 2021
“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.”
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Jen Myers
9 April 2021
“Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
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Jen Myers
March 2021
12 March 2021
“The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.”
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Jen Myers
5 March 2021
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”
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Jen Myers
February 2021
26 February 2021
“I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder”
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Jen Myers
Notes in the Margins: February
So the Notes in the Margins have been absent for a couple of months. It’s been a challenging winter. But I have something special for you now: a short…
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Jen Myers
19 February 2021
“The hoarding of soul within interiority has served a defensive function, protecting us from the tragedies and travesties in our midst."
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Jen Myers
12 February 2021
“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
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Jen Myers
5 February 2021
"No story ever really ends, and I think I know why."
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Jen Myers
January 2021
29 January 2021
“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”
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Jen Myers
22 January 2021
“Keep busy with survival.”
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Jen Myers
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