Language Isn’t Subtle Enough to Explain You – Your personality contains all feelings, all thoughts,all ideas, rippling through you in a vast subconscious well. Your unconscious connects with the“collective unconscious” of other peoples – dead, alive, even fictional. Why isn’t “hate-love” a word?You experience that regularly. How about “fear-attraction”? Common! What I’m suggesting is that weneed to accept the fact that a “personality” is a dynamism, not a slogan. Challenge – Facing this might seem the toughest part, but it isn’t for artists, who routinely “play”along their edge, peeking over it and imagining life on the other side. Art is the best way to expressthis, an enormous relief since it’s non-committal. Of course you’ll have to face the surprise of yourrelatives when your work becomes public: “Where did THAT come from?” But if truth be told, we’vealways been surprised to be related to these people. Danger – Society seeks to label and stigmatize. We need to explore our fear but we are afraid ofbecoming our fear. A simple safe word can’t work when people – bankers, politicians, therapists,employers - are so fundamentally untrustworthy. That is why our identification of ourselves as BraveExplorers is so vital. The vastness of our potential cannot be controlled by language. We will never bebutterflies pinned down in a museum box for the instruction/curiosity of others. Opportunity – Appreciate your self. Don’t slam the door on yourself too soon. Sometimes the worstlabeler, the most determined jailor, is Us. We are deeply afraid of wandering in the forest and losingthe way to get home safe. But Brave Explorers carry Home within them. As Nelson Mandela used toquote from his prison cell, if we are the captains of our souls we can be the masters of our fates. Wecan learn to tolerate a little ambiguity/uncertainty/ambivalence. (Henley.) Meditation - #Haiku: Contemplate Duality Causation; Polarity; Suspicious distrust; Embrace Growth process
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Alysse AallynAlysse Aallyn is a poet who sees tarot as a key to accessing the unconscious. She is the author of four well-received thrillers, Find Courtney, Depraved Heart, Woman Into Wolf and I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, one historical novel (Devlyn) and a book of short stories (Awake Till the End.) She has three published books of poetry – The Sacred Quiver, TheHot Skin and The Five Wounds and edited another (The Feathered Violin.) She trained in theatre at Circle in the Square Theatre School and Martha Graham School of Dance. She appeared in the part of Isabella in Jean Giraudoux’s The Enchanted at the New Yorker Theatre. She has held writing fellowships at Brooklyn College and LaSalle University. Her novel Depraved Heart won a 2011 CT Press Club fiction award and her play Queen of Swords was a semi-finalist in the 2014 National Arts Council First Play award. She has been invited to read her original work at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and has taught creative writing at Catonsville Community College. Woman Into Wolf was a semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference (2016) and her play Our Father’s Restaurant was performed on Pacifica Radio. She has also appeared as a crime commentator on ID - TV’s Blood Relatives.Her play, Let’s Speak Vietnamese was published in Dramatika Magazine. She directed The Maids for Theatre Upstairs in Columbia, Maryland. Other plays she’s written are The Honey & the Pang about Emily Dickinson’s posthumous career, Cuck’d– a modern Othello, and Caving, in which the theatre is transformed into a cave for a spelunking dare. Rough Sleep, (based on her novel I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead) was produced by Manhattan Repertory Theatre (W. 45thSt) in 2019. Her latest play, The Dalingridge Horror, (short version Leonard & Virginia) explores the partnership between Leonard & Virginia Woolf in their own words and was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams 2021 award. Her newest poetry collection, Haunted Wedding will be appearing in 2022 from Thriller Library. Archives
September 2022
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