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"Creativity does not necessitate originality" -date: 2018-01-17 ---- - - #### Or: No good comes from a vacuum - -![](/img/1*J9SQ1JdVMe1pSB-jePs1zg.jpeg)Photo by [Greg Rakozy](https://unsplash.com/photos/oMpAz-DN-9I?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/creation?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)Even the above statement is not original. (No, really…you’ll see…) - -All writers are influenced by what we read, whether conscious or unconscious. For example, my writing style takes several cues from Terry Pratchett, sometimes very deliberately.[1] And there are no doubt countless unconscious influences feeding into my life in ways I don’t even realise. - -So in that sense I am in no way original. But in that same sense, it doesn’t **matter**. - -Stealing’s no good.[2] But remixing is — has always been, will always *be* — the foundation of creativity. - -Creativity is naturally cyclical. Readers write, and writers read. After all, there are only three[5] plots. - -It’s not just writing. Everyone is influenced by everything. Our imagination isn’t entirely our own — all media that we consume, all experiences that we have, every last thing that we see — gets thrown into one pot. Much like a baking recipe, the blend is original although the ingredients are not. - -Accepting the art of the remix is the first step on the journey to finding a voice **— YOUR** **voice**. Your personal experience (original by nature) will blend into everything else that shapes us as people, all those influences known and unknown. - -And that’s as original as it gets. - -So it’s a poorly kept secret my drafts section is overflowing. This is one more of those drafts finally being shoved out into the world. My original title was thus: - -![](/img/1*Y6Sd0_RYfJ1GYeszDo8ZbQ.png)Then Medium dropped this on me: - -[**Don’t Worry About Being Original — Everything’s a Remix** -*One of the biggest limiting beliefs I run into when talking to aspiring writers or creators is that they don’t have…*medium.com](https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-worry-about-being-original-everything-s-a-remix-6fbb06ab1683 "https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-worry-about-being-original-everything-s-a-remix-6fbb06ab1683")[](https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-worry-about-being-original-everything-s-a-remix-6fbb06ab1683)And here we stand. The same sentiment, much of the same words. Classic example of case-in-point, in a meta sense. Pleasingly neat, actually. - -[1] Footnotes being just one recently rediscovered example - -[2] Unless you’re Robin Hood[3] - -[3] Sidenote[4]: is a rhyme split across a sentence and its footnote still a rhyme? - -[4] Footnote, sidenote…notes aplenty…Dear oh dear. - -[5] Replace ‘three’ with x number as appropriate. Doesn’t change the sentiment. - - \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_drafts/2018-02-26-meeting-my-match.markdown b/_drafts/2018-02-26-meeting-my-match.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index 61bff41..0000000 --- a/_drafts/2018-02-26-meeting-my-match.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Meeting my match" -date: 2018-02-26 ---- - - #### Quoted By The Goat - -#### Matchbox Quotes Day 49 [2018–02–26] - -![](/img/1*HtuQdTpgJ7OV-GxNFaTMAA.png) -> Igniting a duel of hearts \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_drafts/2018-05-06-we-fell-too-hard-too-fast.markdown b/_drafts/2018-05-06-we-fell-too-hard-too-fast.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index f82945c..0000000 --- a/_drafts/2018-05-06-we-fell-too-hard-too-fast.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "we fell too hard too fast" -date: 2018-05-06 ---- - - ![](/img/1*bgClHJxffITMMUiAHTK5WQ.jpeg)Photo by [Ayko Kehl](https://unsplash.com/photos/N7lk60VTFfQ?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/falling?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)we fell too hard too fast - -shattered too finely - -an exquisite fracturing - - \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml index 0aed378..95f35e4 100644 --- a/config.toml +++ b/config.toml @@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ sectionPagesMenu = "main" # Enable menu system for lazy bloggers url = "/categories/fiction/" weight = 3 +[[menu.main]] + name = " Southpaw Poetry" + url = "/categories/poetic" + weight = 5 + [[menu.main]] name = "Search" identifier = "search" diff --git a/static/img/1*7PVzzRFriu35p-sJV4rwLA.jpeg b/content/post/2017/11/eureka-moments-never-had/1*7PVzzRFriu35p-sJV4rwLA.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*7PVzzRFriu35p-sJV4rwLA.jpeg rename to content/post/2017/11/eureka-moments-never-had/1*7PVzzRFriu35p-sJV4rwLA.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2017-11-29-eureka-moments-never-had.markdown b/content/post/2017/11/eureka-moments-never-had/index.markdown similarity index 76% rename from _drafts/2017-11-29-eureka-moments-never-had.markdown rename to content/post/2017/11/eureka-moments-never-had/index.markdown index c52e791..ec029d1 100644 --- a/_drafts/2017-11-29-eureka-moments-never-had.markdown +++ b/content/post/2017/11/eureka-moments-never-had/index.markdown @@ -1,11 +1,15 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Eureka moments never had" -date: 2017-11-29 ---- ++++ +date = "2017-11-29" +layout = "post" +categories = ["life", "antiwork"] +title = "Eureka moments never had" +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**7PVzzRFriu35p-sJV4rwLA*" ++++ +> “Little particles of inspiration sleet through the universe all the time traveling through the densest matter in the same way that a neutrino passes through a candyfloss haystack, and most of them miss.” — Terry Pratchett, Sourcery - ![](/img/1*7PVzzRFriu35p-sJV4rwLA.jpeg)via https://unsplash.com -> “Little particles of inspiration sleet through the universe all the time traveling through the densest matter in the same way that a neutrino passes through a candyfloss haystack, and most of them miss.” — Terry Pratchett, SourceryMost of them never find the right target. +Most of them never find the right target. The human mind possesses an overwhelming capacity for creativity that continually overwhelms me. Society, science, technology….humanity…has advanced in directions that were previously unimaginable, nevermind thought impossible. And no doubt it will continue to do so. @@ -18,7 +22,9 @@ Everyone is a creative. Humanity’s greatest strength is imagination, be it app However, human society currently isn’t conducive to that. -> “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay GouldI believe people having to work to survive is criminal. It’s one of the reasons I support Universal Basic Income. What if people were freed from having to go to jobs they probably hate just to be able to survive…to be able to keep working? What if this insane cycle was broken, via automation or otherwise? What then? +> “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould + +I believe people having to work to survive is criminal. It’s one of the reasons I support Universal Basic Income. What if people were freed from having to go to jobs they probably hate just to be able to survive…to be able to keep working? What if this insane cycle was broken, via automation or otherwise? What then? If it were ever allowed to happen, maybe it’d lead to people not knowing what to do with the time they’d suddenly been granted. But I don’t think so. @@ -28,4 +34,4 @@ My inner cynic demands I add a caveat here. In all of the above, think is operat When inspiration hits, grab it with both hands. Spend your time wisely, for it is limited and irreplaceable. **Create. *Live.*** - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*JU7deLCU5l54IDbLwO5M2A.jpeg b/content/post/2018/01/angels-got-their-halos/1*JU7deLCU5l54IDbLwO5M2A.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*JU7deLCU5l54IDbLwO5M2A.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/01/angels-got-their-halos/1*JU7deLCU5l54IDbLwO5M2A.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-01-21--the-best-way-out-is-always-through--angels-got-their-halos-walking-through-the-fires-of-hell.markdown b/content/post/2018/01/angels-got-their-halos/index.markdown similarity index 54% rename from _drafts/2018-01-21--the-best-way-out-is-always-through--angels-got-their-halos-walking-through-the-fires-of-hell.markdown rename to content/post/2018/01/angels-got-their-halos/index.markdown index f86e26b..07eb169 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-01-21--the-best-way-out-is-always-through--angels-got-their-halos-walking-through-the-fires-of-hell.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/01/angels-got-their-halos/index.markdown @@ -1,15 +1,25 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "“The best way out is always through. Angels got their halos walking through the fires of hell”" -date: 2018-01-21 ---- ++++ +title = "“The best way out is always through. Angels got their halos walking through the fires of hell”" +date = "2018-01-21" +categories = ["life"] +tags = ["AL"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**JU7deLCU5l54IDbLwO5M2A*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Mohamed Nohassi" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/UKX_DwNKXSA?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ - ![](/img/1*JU7deLCU5l54IDbLwO5M2A.jpeg)Photo by [Mohamed Nohassi](https://unsplash.com/photos/UKX_DwNKXSA?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/fire?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)Those are the words of someone who shattered my trust. And yet I still repeat those words like a mantra. +Those are the words of someone who shattered my trust. And yet I still repeat those words like a mantra. Despite all she took from me, she gave me those words. Those words of power. Perhaps they were even worth all the pain. Perhaps. Because they are so fundamentally true. The only answer, when life sucks, is *keep going*. +> “If you’re *going through hell*, keep going.” — *Winston Churchill* -> “If you’re *going through hell*, keep going.” — *Winston Churchill*Churchill said it first, of course. But I prefer the Angels version. Not just because of the special meaning it holds to me, but for the extra emotional punch. +Churchill said it first, of course. But I prefer the Angels version. Not just because of the special meaning it holds to me, but for the extra emotional punch. Imagine an angel. @@ -25,8 +35,8 @@ What she always has the choice in, however, is to keep going. Step after step, d Take the path. Walk through the fire. Emerge as a phoenix. -If fire still licks around you, remember — just *keep going. *You cannot go back — and to stop would invite the flame to consume you. +If fire still licks around you, remember — just *keep going.* You cannot go back — and to stop would invite the flame to consume you. -*If only I were better at listening to what I preach…* +*If only I were better at listening to what I preach…* - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*J9SQ1JdVMe1pSB-jePs1zg.jpeg b/content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/1*J9SQ1JdVMe1pSB-jePs1zg.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*J9SQ1JdVMe1pSB-jePs1zg.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/1*J9SQ1JdVMe1pSB-jePs1zg.jpeg diff --git a/static/img/1*Y6Sd0_RYfJ1GYeszDo8ZbQ.png b/content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/1*Y6Sd0_RYfJ1GYeszDo8ZbQ.png similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*Y6Sd0_RYfJ1GYeszDo8ZbQ.png rename to content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/1*Y6Sd0_RYfJ1GYeszDo8ZbQ.png diff --git a/content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/index.markdown b/content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/index.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..504a680 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2018/01/creativity-does-not-necessitate-originality/index.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ ++++ +date = "2018-01-17" +layout = "post" +categories = ["life", "writing"] +title = "Creativity does not necessitate originality" +description = "Or: No good comes from a vacuum" +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**J9SQ1JdVMe1pSB-jePs1z*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Greg Rakozy" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/oMpAz-DN-9I?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ +Even the above statement is not original. (No, really…you’ll see…) + +All writers are influenced by what we read, whether conscious or unconscious. For example, my writing style takes several cues from Terry Pratchett, sometimes very deliberately.[^1] And there are no doubt countless unconscious influences feeding into my life in ways I don’t even realise. + +So in that sense I am in no way original. But in that same sense, it doesn’t **matter**. + +Stealing’s no good.[^2] But remixing is — has always been, will always *be* — the foundation of creativity. + +Creativity is naturally cyclical. Readers write, and writers read. After all, there are only three[^5] plots. + +It’s not just writing. Everyone is influenced by everything. Our imagination isn’t entirely our own — all media that we consume, all experiences that we have, every last thing that we see — gets thrown into one pot. Much like a baking recipe, the blend is original although the ingredients are not. + +Accepting the art of the remix is the first step on the journey to finding a voice **— YOUR** **voice**. Your personal experience (original by nature) will blend into everything else that shapes us as people, all those influences known and unknown. + +And that’s as original as it gets. + +So it’s a poorly kept secret my drafts section is overflowing. This is one more of those drafts finally being shoved out into the world. My original title was thus: + +![](1*Y6Sd0_RYfJ1GYeszDo8ZbQ.png) + +Then Medium dropped this on me: + +[**Don’t Worry About Being Original — Everything’s a Remix** +*One of the biggest limiting beliefs I run into when talking to aspiring writers or creators is that they don’t have…* medium.com](https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-worry-about-being-original-everything-s-a-remix-6fbb06ab1683 "https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-worry-about-being-original-everything-s-a-remix-6fbb06ab1683")[](https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-worry-about-being-original-everything-s-a-remix-6fbb06ab1683) +And here we stand. The same sentiment, much of the same words. Classic example of case-in-point, in a meta sense. Pleasingly neat, actually. + +[^1]: Footnotes being just one recently rediscovered example + +[^2]: Unless you’re Robin Hood[^3] + +[^3]: Sidenote[^4]: is a rhyme split across a sentence and its footnote still a rhyme? + +[^4]: Footnote, sidenote…notes aplenty…Dear oh dear. + +[^5]: Replace ‘three’ with *x* sub infinite number as appropriate. Doesn’t change the sentiment. + + diff --git a/content/post/2018/02/for-the-love-of-blood/index.markdown b/content/post/2018/02/for-the-love-of-blood/index.markdown index 857af30..5603de8 100644 --- a/content/post/2018/02/for-the-love-of-blood/index.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/02/for-the-love-of-blood/index.markdown @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ +++ date = "2018-02-14" layout = "post" -categories = ["semifiction"] +categories = ["life", "me", "semifiction"] tags = ["AL"] title = "For the love of blood" [[resources]] diff --git a/static/img/1*HtuQdTpgJ7OV-GxNFaTMAA.png b/content/post/2018/02/meeting-my-match/1*HtuQdTpgJ7OV-GxNFaTMAA.png similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*HtuQdTpgJ7OV-GxNFaTMAA.png rename to content/post/2018/02/meeting-my-match/1*HtuQdTpgJ7OV-GxNFaTMAA.png diff --git a/content/post/2018/02/meeting-my-match/index.markdown b/content/post/2018/02/meeting-my-match/index.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0390ed --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2018/02/meeting-my-match/index.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ ++++ +date = "2018-02-26" +layout = "post" +categories = ["fiction", "poetic"] +title = "Meeting my match" +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**HtuQdTpgJ7OV-GxNFaTMAA*" ++++ + + #### Quoted By The Goat + +#### Matchbox Quotes Day 49 [2018–02–26] + +> Igniting a duel of hearts diff --git a/static/img/1*ZFBkRUl5Z01iCAmXiEcdcA.jpeg b/content/post/2018/03/finding-your-voice/1*ZFBkRUl5Z01iCAmXiEcdcA.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*ZFBkRUl5Z01iCAmXiEcdcA.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/03/finding-your-voice/1*ZFBkRUl5Z01iCAmXiEcdcA.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-03-28-finding-your-voice.markdown b/content/post/2018/03/finding-your-voice/index.markdown similarity index 81% rename from _drafts/2018-03-28-finding-your-voice.markdown rename to content/post/2018/03/finding-your-voice/index.markdown index 14b8d3d..1a55cf3 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-03-28-finding-your-voice.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/03/finding-your-voice/index.markdown @@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Finding your voice" -date: 2018-03-28 ---- ++++ +title = "Finding your voice" +description = "Yours and only yours to claim…" +date = "2018-03-28" +categories = ["life", "writing"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**ZFBkRUl5Z01iCAmXiEcdcA*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Vince Fleming" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/afrNpD1wKZU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ - #### Yours and only yours to claim… - -![](/img/1*ZFBkRUl5Z01iCAmXiEcdcA.jpeg)Photo by [Vince Fleming](https://unsplash.com/photos/afrNpD1wKZU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/yell?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)I haven’t found my voice. I have, however, found *more of* it. +I haven’t found my voice. I have, however, found *more of* it. I don’t often look back at my previous work. Partly because when I do all I see is flaws[1] but also because my views have changed so much. For a variety of reasons[4], my world has opened up in the past couple years. @@ -46,4 +53,4 @@ Speak out. Speak your mind. Nobody else will, because nobody else **can**. [7] Maybe we all are, always. Maybe those that look to me like they’ve found their voice have just honed the craft of finding it. - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*gOXPMNusZEjRIFOr_ORqCw.jpeg b/content/post/2018/03/heres-to-the-twilight/1*gOXPMNusZEjRIFOr_ORqCw.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*gOXPMNusZEjRIFOr_ORqCw.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/03/heres-to-the-twilight/1*gOXPMNusZEjRIFOr_ORqCw.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-03-20-here-s-to-the-twilight-times.markdown b/content/post/2018/03/heres-to-the-twilight/index.markdown similarity index 78% rename from _drafts/2018-03-20-here-s-to-the-twilight-times.markdown rename to content/post/2018/03/heres-to-the-twilight/index.markdown index 48ef2c9..fcbc524 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-03-20-here-s-to-the-twilight-times.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/03/heres-to-the-twilight/index.markdown @@ -1,10 +1,18 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Here’s to the twilight times" -date: 2018-03-20 ---- ++++ +title = "Here’s to the twilight times" +date = "2018-03-20" +categories = ["life"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**gOXPMNusZEjRIFOr_ORqCw*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Max Langelott" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/Hw62tzAkXXE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ - ![](/img/1*gOXPMNusZEjRIFOr_ORqCw.jpeg)Photo by [Max Langelott](https://unsplash.com/photos/Hw62tzAkXXE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/autumn?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)Many people love the summer. It’s heat and relaxation. +Many people love the summer. It’s heat and relaxation. I’m not one of them. The heat melts my brain thoroughly. I find myself unable to think, let alone do. Which is all well and good on holiday, but otherwise a pain. And *dear* *god* the hayfever from all of these goddamn plants. Cluttering up the place looking pretty and producing lifegiving oxygen…how dare they! @@ -32,4 +40,4 @@ Best of all, they don’t overstay their welcome. [3] Need as in…if you don’t fix it you’re going to actually *freeze* - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*y1NXI-alfOz6PgFt2VvP3A.jpeg b/content/post/2018/04/jekyll-and-hyde/1*y1NXI-alfOz6PgFt2VvP3A.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*y1NXI-alfOz6PgFt2VvP3A.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/04/jekyll-and-hyde/1*y1NXI-alfOz6PgFt2VvP3A.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-04-30-jekyll-and-hyde-philosophy.markdown b/content/post/2018/04/jekyll-and-hyde/index.markdown similarity index 70% rename from _drafts/2018-04-30-jekyll-and-hyde-philosophy.markdown rename to content/post/2018/04/jekyll-and-hyde/index.markdown index a991ece..72ce29b 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-04-30-jekyll-and-hyde-philosophy.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/04/jekyll-and-hyde/index.markdown @@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Jekyll and Hyde Philosophy" -date: 2018-04-30 ---- ++++ +title = "Jekyll and Hyde Philosophy" +description = "Torn between the bad and the ugly" +date = "2018-04-30" +categories = ["life", "me", "philosophy"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**y1NXI-alfOz6PgFt2VvP3A*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Wendy Scofield" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/TjfQR3JgGG8?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ - #### Torn between the bad and the ugly - -![](/img/1*y1NXI-alfOz6PgFt2VvP3A.jpeg)Photo by [Wendy Scofield](https://unsplash.com/photos/TjfQR3JgGG8?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/syringe?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)I’ve mused before about my irreconcilable dual philosophy. The part of me that inspires the ‘Neither do I’ in my bio — it’s not just there for the rhyme! +I’ve mused before about my irreconcilable dual philosophy. The part of me that inspires the ‘Neither do I’ in my bio [Ed. Note 2021: Bio previously read 'Adrenaline Junkie afraid to die. Doesn't make sense? Neither do I!'] — it’s not just there for the rhyme! In the shower[1] just now it hit me what that is. @@ -36,10 +43,10 @@ I don’t know which side I’d *want* to win, either. [1] Why is it always the shower? I guess because its the only high-daydream activity we do regularly and consistently… -[2] Equality for all and all that wonderful bollox. +[2] Equality [Ed. Note 2021: Nope. Meant equity!] for all and all that wonderful bollox. [3] For all the good that intentions are… [4] And anger is a veritable powerplant of energy, creative and otherwise. If it was good enough for Terry Pratchett, it is more than good enough for me. - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*bgClHJxffITMMUiAHTK5WQ.jpeg b/content/post/2018/05/we-fell-too-hard/1*bgClHJxffITMMUiAHTK5WQ.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*bgClHJxffITMMUiAHTK5WQ.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/05/we-fell-too-hard/1*bgClHJxffITMMUiAHTK5WQ.jpeg diff --git a/content/post/2018/05/we-fell-too-hard/index.markdown b/content/post/2018/05/we-fell-too-hard/index.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..427d42f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2018/05/we-fell-too-hard/index.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ ++++ +title = "we fell too hard too fast" +date = "2018-05-06" +categories = ["poetic", "fiction"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**bgClHJxffITMMUiAHTK5WQ*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Ayko Kehl" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/N7lk60VTFfQ?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ + +we fell too hard too fast + +shattered too finely + +an exquisite fracturing + + diff --git a/static/img/1*X6EM9sYgei-wM70Z3IoGxw.jpeg b/content/post/2018/06/is-self-reflection-enough/1*X6EM9sYgei-wM70Z3IoGxw.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*X6EM9sYgei-wM70Z3IoGxw.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/06/is-self-reflection-enough/1*X6EM9sYgei-wM70Z3IoGxw.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-06-13-is-self-reflection-enough.markdown b/content/post/2018/06/is-self-reflection-enough/index.markdown similarity index 58% rename from _drafts/2018-06-13-is-self-reflection-enough.markdown rename to content/post/2018/06/is-self-reflection-enough/index.markdown index a7f318b..c21985d 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-06-13-is-self-reflection-enough.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/06/is-self-reflection-enough/index.markdown @@ -1,31 +1,34 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Is self reflection enough?" -date: 2018-06-13 ---- ++++ +title = "Is self reflection enough?" +date = "2018-06-13" +categories = ["life", "me"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**X6EM9sYgei-wM70Z3IoGxw*" ++++ - ![](/img/1*X6EM9sYgei-wM70Z3IoGxw.jpeg)I’ve been doing a lot (a whole lot!) of self reflection lately. It’s probably *reflected* — Hah! (Sorry[1]) — in my writings. +I’ve been doing a lot (a whole lot!) of self reflection lately. It’s probably *reflected* — Hah! (Sorry[^1]) — in my writings. -I’m trying to figure out *who I am*. And [*what I ****do***](https://medium.com/@WhereAngelsFearToTread/obviously-im-biased-but-80778a2de71e). Big questions. But ones I want answers to. +I’m trying to figure out *who I am*. And [*what I* ***do***](https://medium.com/@WhereAngelsFearToTread/obviously-im-biased-but-80778a2de71e). Big questions. But ones I want answers to. Not least because of the series of relationship explosions I’ve undergone recently. In particular I’m trying to identify and neutralise toxic behaviours I either already had or developed in those relationships. -I’m pretty sure I’m badly codependent. Which needs to change. I also have a major tendency to jump ahead of myself when I should be rolling with the punches.[2] But I don’t know exactly how. Which loops quite neatly to the title. +I’m pretty sure I’m badly codependent. Which needs to change. I also have a major tendency to jump ahead of myself when I should be rolling with the punches.[^2] But I don’t know exactly how. Which loops quite neatly to the title. -I’ve been looking inward. Balancing it with looking outward. Trying to let a *little* more positivity bleed into the darkness.[3] +I’ve been looking inward. Balancing it with looking outward. Trying to let a *little* more positivity bleed into the darkness.[^3] Trying really damn hard to be more mindful, more grateful. -All of that is good. But is it enough? Can I do this — whatever *this *is — alone? +All of that is good. But is it enough? Can I do this — whatever *this* is — alone? I don’t know. Which is another thing I’m working at being better at — admitting when I’m wrong or don’t know. Which is a lot of the time when *this* is involved. I guess I’m just trying to be a better person. Something I should be able to manage alone. In theory. I don’t know. -[1] I’m not. +[^1]: I’m not. -[2] I don’t mean that inherently negatively as it implies. *Going with the flow *just isn’t violent enough for me. On second thoughts maybe I *do*. +[^2]: I don’t mean that inherently negatively as it implies. *Going with the flow *just isn’t violent enough for me. On second thoughts maybe I *do*. -[3] Sometimes. +[^3]: Sometimes. - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*4hLg_xEJR-4deFWCq-U8dg.jpeg b/content/post/2018/06/on-labels/1*4hLg_xEJR-4deFWCq-U8dg.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*4hLg_xEJR-4deFWCq-U8dg.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/06/on-labels/1*4hLg_xEJR-4deFWCq-U8dg.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-06-15-on-labels.markdown b/content/post/2018/06/on-labels/index.markdown similarity index 77% rename from _drafts/2018-06-15-on-labels.markdown rename to content/post/2018/06/on-labels/index.markdown index 4f34d28..486c7b7 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-06-15-on-labels.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/06/on-labels/index.markdown @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "On labels" -date: 2018-06-15 ---- ++++ +title = "On labels" +description = "Another double edged philosophy" +date = "2018-10-25" +categories = ["life", "me"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**4hLg_xEJR-4deFWCq-U8dg*" ++++ - #### Another double edged philosophy - -![](/img/1*4hLg_xEJR-4deFWCq-U8dg.jpeg)Labels are great. They help organise things, like files. They underpin organisation and sorting systems. Categorisation. +Labels are great. They help organise things, like files. They underpin organisation and sorting systems. Categorisation. Labels get tricky when applied to things that defy categorisation. People. @@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ But gratitude won’t do. I am trying to become an Ally to those less fortunate. On a separate but related note as it were, I have a new label for myself. -I am hetroflexible. Maybe even bi. The truth is I’m not quite sure. +I am hetroflexible. Maybe even bi. [Ed. note 2021: Pan, these days! 🏳️‍🌈] The truth is I’m not quite sure. ‘Confused’ feels like the most valid label, but I’m concerned that it would be interpreted as ‘making light’ of a serious issue. For want of a better word. Anyway! @@ -36,12 +38,12 @@ Am I leveraging that declaration to make a point? Yes, a little bit. Is it justi Because my point is thus: -Us. Never *Them*.* *Remember the person. +Us. Never *Them*. Remember the person. With one exception. Which I suppose is the real double bladed part of the philosophy. Almost hypocritical. But you should be used to that by now. -Anyway. The exception. Those that wield labels like weapons. See themselves as better than anyone else.** **To them I say… +Anyway. The exception. Those that wield labels like weapons. See themselves as better than anyone else. To them I say… **Fuck Off** - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/static/img/1*pzsYIBePPPQEwLMa9ubftA.jpeg b/content/post/2018/10/how-to-be-invincible/1*pzsYIBePPPQEwLMa9ubftA.jpeg similarity index 100% rename from static/img/1*pzsYIBePPPQEwLMa9ubftA.jpeg rename to content/post/2018/10/how-to-be-invincible/1*pzsYIBePPPQEwLMa9ubftA.jpeg diff --git a/_drafts/2018-10-25-how-to-be-invincible.markdown b/content/post/2018/10/how-to-be-invincible/index.markdown similarity index 79% rename from _drafts/2018-10-25-how-to-be-invincible.markdown rename to content/post/2018/10/how-to-be-invincible/index.markdown index e14ecb0..40da5c7 100644 --- a/_drafts/2018-10-25-how-to-be-invincible.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/10/how-to-be-invincible/index.markdown @@ -1,12 +1,21 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "How to be invincible" -date: 2018-10-25 ---- ++++ +title = "How to be invincible" +description = "A beginners guide to the impossible" +date = "2018-10-25" +categories = ["life", "fiction"] +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**pzsYIBePPPQEwLMa9ubftA*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "Matt Atherton" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/zuEjcqGWVBc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" ++++ - #### A beginners guide to the impossible +Authors' note: I reckons that should say “Trust your gut, cuddle a cat and slam tequila” But that wasn’t on Unsplash… -![](/img/1*pzsYIBePPPQEwLMa9ubftA.jpeg)Photo by [Matt Atherton](https://unsplash.com/photos/zuEjcqGWVBc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/impossible?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) | Authors note: I reckons that should say “Trust your gut, cuddle a cat and slam tequila” But that wasn’t on Unsplash…Three years ago, I never would have thought that I could write a novel. Let alone write on in **thirty days**. +Three years ago, I never would have thought that I could write a novel. Let alone write on in **thirty days**. That’s right, it’s almost that time of year again! November is fast becoming one of my favourite months — not just because of Halloween and the fireworks, but the novelling. This year I’ve been particularly fierce in my quest to get people to join me on the mad journey — and have been met with reasonable success. This is another slab in that road. @@ -48,7 +57,7 @@ It’s how I wrote a novel in a month, and it is how **you** can too. Or anythin Do enough impossible things and you will be invincible. Simple.⁵ -¹ Not the electrical kind, unless you have *really *odd aspirations… +¹ Not the electrical kind, unless you have *really* odd aspirations… ² Well no, I didn’t actually. Because I’m a cheap bastard… @@ -58,8 +67,8 @@ Do enough impossible things and you will be invincible. Simple.⁵ ⁵ That is what I promised you after all, isn’t it? How to be invincible? And if you can do the impossible, then you must be invincible…right?⁶ -⁶ Don’t tell me you were actually looking for *immortality. *Because if you were, fuck *right* off.⁷ You *actually thought* I’d publish the secret to that on *Medium*, for *free*?! Hah. +⁶ Don’t tell me you were actually looking for *immortality.* Because if you were, fuck *right* off.⁷ You *actually thought* I’d publish the secret to that on *Medium*, for *free*?! Hah. ⁷ But come right back if you find it somewhere else. *Please?* - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md b/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md index d75de83..e155274 100644 --- a/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md +++ b/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ +++ categories = ["poetic"] -tags = ["fire"] +tags = ["fire", "HL"] date = "2021-12-15T00:19:00.000Z" layout = "post" title = "Newflame"