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Human symmetry is asymmetrical
dichotomies, the shame of beauty, and embracing imperfections
Jun 30
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Jolee Donnelly
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“Okay.”
Saying yes to playing along.
Jun 22
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Jolee Donnelly
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Surrender to Soar
Lessons from a Mother’s Wobbly Road to Resilience
Jun 1
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Jolee Donnelly
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The Story of a Toddler Man Tantrum
Feb 15
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Jolee Donnelly
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Body Positive in Training
Mar 23
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Jolee Donnelly
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They swarmed the streets, queen of their hives. Representatives of womankind.
Nov 5, 2024
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Jolee Donnelly
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Your resting bitch face is beautiful.
Feb 1
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Jolee Donnelly
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Her DNA is Rooted in Love
Mar 17
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Jolee Donnelly
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Even if it feels like nobody is listening, keep using your voice.
She wept for the moth whose death could be attributed to the curiosity of the other children. “I told them stop with my mean voice. But they didn’t…
May 25
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Jolee Donnelly
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Motherless
The motherless lineup shuffles in. Their height measured in grief. Behind the glass a woman is asked, "which one she be?" She cut off the woman who gave…
May 12
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Improv & Perfectionism
like jazz, words scat a mumbo’d jumbo’d mess of sounds. drumming lines, shaping letters , forming words strung into phrases, thoughts with beginnings…
Apr 28
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Jolee Donnelly
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Older women dig holes with love for young girls
The older women of the tribe dig holes, cut out veins of exhausted roots with love making room for the young girls to plant infant roots in their…
Apr 19
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Jolee Donnelly
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Motion Without Emotion
on getting started
Apr 13
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Jolee Donnelly
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Prying open the box.
Sitting beside him on the bed, his daughter reads aloud a poem, If by Rudyard Kipling. She pronounces Rudyard’s name wrong and in a voice short of a…
Apr 7
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Piercing a girl's ears
an archaic right of passage to womanhood?
Mar 29
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Jolee Donnelly
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