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“…through various linguistic tools she seeks to highlight the significance of everyday existence.”
- excerpt from The Poet/Practitioner: A Paradigm for the Profession
the poet’s portal
the poet's portal is a blog subscription that uses poetic thought to explore and expand key concepts such as archetypes, emotions, and definitions. each post invites self-reflection and encourages readers to break free from self-imposed limitations. at its core, the portal is about expanding the concept of self because how we define our world is a reflection of our beliefs, and those beliefs shape our expression.
"i'm bitter over the languages i’ve lost.
knowing my world is filtered through this colonizer lense.
i read that english has a lot of nouns,
makes sense for a civilization obsessed with things.
i'm determined to reshape it, cultivate it as ours."
-excerpt from quantum leaps
upcoming posts
9/13
DEFINITIONS:
curiosity
9/23
ARCHETYPES:
the loner
10/7
DEFINITIONS:
creativity
10/21
EMOTIONS:
shame
11/11
DEFINITIONS:
love
11/25
ILLUSIONS:
restriction
12/9
DEFINITIONS:
trust
12/23
ARCHETYPES:
the trickster
1/6
DEFINITIONS:
beauty

word: creativity
Creativity exists outside of art. Creativity is fundamental to existence itself. It shows up in ways that are not traditionally highlighted. An average day is met with countless decisions, questions, thoughts, actions, etc. Creativity is how the universe expresses itself. To deny your creativity is to deny your expression.

word: curiosity
Curiosity can only come from within. Whether known or unknown, it’s the desire for expression, the desire for awareness. The will to live is the ability to be curious. It’s inherent to our very existence.
Everything is curious.

word: awareness
Awareness is a noun and aware is an adjective. For me, awareness is not a state, it's active perception. We become aware of energy which to our perception, is in a constant state of motion. Therefore, my awareness moves with the energy. There is a push and pull. The recognition of knowledge is active in its perception.

word: accountability
Accountability acknowledges the responsibility of choice. It requires confidence. It's an act of self love; it becomes about confirming rather than proving. There's nothing to prove when you have a deep knowing of oneself. It's the realization that you aren’t your circumstances. You aren’t what happened to you. You aren’t how people treat you.

word: discover
Discovery is a collective and individual experience. It's the unknown turning into the known. Discovery can be in the form of thought as well as feelings. I have discovered so much of myself by digging deeper into my emotional landscape. The invisible still exists and discovery is destined. You don't have to travel far, if at all, to discover. Merely observe.