29 09 to 5 10 24 QOTW
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29 September to 5 October 2024
Sunday
Rest. Heal. Recover.
To people with serious illnesses and injuries who are also experiencing homelessness, those three words seem impossible to achieve. How can one rest when lying on a blanket in public is considered a quality-of-life infraction? Where can one heal or recover when medicine and other personal belongings could be thrown away without a moment’s notice?
Over the last decade, medical respite care programs have been bridging the gap between housing and health care for people experiencing homelessness. These programs provide private space for unhoused folks who are too ill to recover from an illness or injury on the streets, but do not require hospital-level treatment.
Robert Davis, A Place to Recover: How Medical Respite Programs Help Unhoused People Heal, Reasons to Be Cheerful
Monday
People with chronic disabilities have as much desire and potential to have wild and creative lives as anyone else.
, Our Words, Our Lives: Writing and M.E.. edited by Katy Wimhurst, 2024.Tuesday
[…] f the chaotic flight of an individual bird can eventually coalese into migration, my own frantic efforts may someday result in a significant pattern.
In Overhead Lines, the Writing Path
Wednesday
Love protects you.
in her liner notes on Nada Surf’s new album Moon Mirror, as quoted on her Substack.Thursday
Strawberries are There She Goes, an easy to love open book; blackberries are all The Heart of Saturday Night and feel like they have something left to tell you.
A glossy purple clot, Tom Waits, brown betty crumble and two excellent drinks,
’s Garden To TableFriday
My major reason for reading stories is that I get off on knowing other people’s secrets. On every level, I get off—I tremble from the power of the sexual charge of the secret and the electrical excitement of suddenly discovering the connections I never made before.
From Dorothy Allison’s essay on place published in The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House; as quoted in Writing in the Dark by Jeanine Oullette in her excellent craft essay on place
Saturday
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wisława Szymborska, Possibilities
https://www.szymborska.org.pl/en/wislawa/selected-poems/possibilities/
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