1. Getting lost is another e...
It will be all right in the end, and maybe even in the middle. You will not suffer as long as you think you will. You are not fated to be unhappy. You are not destined for failure. Remember who you are. Let me say it again. Remember ...
2. the world offers itself t...
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I...
3. Your one perfect kingdom.
PAVEMENT You don’t have to sleep inside tonight. You don’t have to sleep at all. You can go out late after the rest of the town has settled and treat any empty parking lot like your own personal ocean lay out some beach towels a...
words, returned
a few years ago i sent these words out on permanent loan to a friend of mine who was more brilliant than she realized. just the other day, she sent them back to me. i think they still fit her just fine, she...
Burning The Old Year
... Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial...
there are things to write about every ti...
the ever wonderful Tanya Davis has long held a place of honor in this Blackbird nest. she writes words and sings songs that touch the most shadowy and tender of places…they linger long in my...
half a million secrets
... “Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.” – Frank Warren, PostSecret A crazy idea, a bunch...
Murmuration
murmuration ... ( image courtesy of Face the Wall Studio...About Blackbird Studio
Blackbird Studio is the home nest and creative space for Raechelle Vyn, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Raechelle is an Expressive Arts Practitioner, a passionate maker-of-things, and a strong advocate for feeding the creativity that lives inside each of us.
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