Writing My Wrongs

Mother to three beautiful children. Oldest child surrendered to adoption. Reunited in 2005.Writer, designer, jewelry maker, reader, searcher, friend, sister, deep thinker, INFJ, chronic hair colorer, considered EMO, pierced, tattooed, a gemini, and a recovering catholic. Love travel, languages, books, fonts, pens, cool paper, color, solitude, and oh yeah, coffee.

For more information on me, consult my About Me page.

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“...lukewarm acceptance is far more bewildering than outright rejection” - Martin Luther King

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"I am the horizon
you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso
I am also what surrounds you:
my brain
scattered with your
tincans, bones, empty shells,
the litter of your invasions.
I am the space you desecrate
as you pass through.
- Margaret Atwood

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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are few who have the love and courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace life like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.- From the play, Courting Darkness, by M. Longley

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” –Kahlil Gibran

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"Regrettably, in many cases, the emphasis has changed from the desire to provide a needy child with a home, to that of providing a needy parent with a child. As a result, a whole industry has grown, generating millions of dollars of revenue each year..." - Commission on Human Rights, resolution 2002/92; E/CN/2002/79; page 25

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included." - Karl Marx

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."- Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Adoption is a violent act, a political act of aggression towards a woman who has supposedly offended the sexual mores by committing the unforgivable act of not suppressing her sexuality, and therefore not keeping it for trading purposes through traditional marriage. The crime is a grave one, for she threatens the very fabric of our society. The penalty is severe. She is stripped of her child by a variety of subtle and not so subtle manoeuvres and then brutally abandoned." - Joss Shawyer, Death by Adoption, Cicada Press (1979)

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Banner artwork and profile picture: Gustav Klimt,The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze, c.1909 and Mother and Child (detail from The Three Ages of Woman), c.1905