The great resignation of 2021 has been a huge headline this year. After millions of people lost their jobs in 2020, this year we saw millions of employees voluntarily leave their jobs. Here’s my hot take—employers can’t fight this. If somebody isn’t willing, you can’t coerce them to be willing. Even if you do, that…
{untitled poem x} e.l. jayne
you didn’t know and that’s all i needed to know. that is enough, or rather, it isn’t, but it nonetheless helps in some way, and that’s how it is with life. –e.l. jayne
{repercussion} poem x e.l. jayne
I loved you as if, I really did live, In a grey house with a yellow door. –e.l. jayne
{lopsided love} poem x e.l. jayne
{lopsided love} i drink coffee at midnight, so i can keep writing, because my soul demands it, because today you told me, that i love you more than you love me, as if i didn’t know already. –e.l. jayne
{conviction over confirmation} poem x e.l. jayne
{conviction over confirmation} as i sit here on this planet that i believe to be rotating, my main concern is to discover whether or not I’m in a state of peace. well, that’s deceptive. my main concern is that I don’t believe I’m in a state of peace. so I revert to my antidote… red…
Love Languages: A Question for my fellow writers — Pointless Overthinking
It’s a rainy Monday evening here in Salt Lake City—a perfect occasion to sit on my living room floor and write. Here’s what my mind has been mulling over: A person’s love language is how they feel and receive love. When someone tells me they read my latest poem or article that I posted, I […]…
{untitled poem ix} x e.l. jayne
i want to be madly in love or nothing at all. life is too short for a common love, decent music, or mediocre wine.
Happy birthday to me!
25 laps around the sun. A quarter of a century. Time for more fun! This year I’m choosing to focus on the good. There is so much love + light to be grateful for in this life. I couldn’t ask for a better support system to surround me, I live in a beautiful city with…
Lopsided Love: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. — Pointless Overthinking
Some of the most popular romance stories feature one-sided love. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby hopelessly awaits Daisy to return to him. The Roman mythological epoch of Echo and Narcissus told one of the first stories of unrequited love. In The Notebook, Noah chases Allie for years, even through an engagement, until she comes back […]…
vague fantastic figures
The world was now peopled with vague fantastic figures that dissolved under her steady gaze and then formed again in new shapes. ~Chinua Achebe Here is a quote from a book I’ve recently finished reading as a recommendation per my friend, Billy Osogo. As a writer, I would highly recommend Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” for…
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