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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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"beautiful poetry
Deep beautiful poetry! Jessica’s writing will make you pause and to ponder her profound words! She shares grief but it feels lighter after her poetry! She is a great poet for our times 🌺" |
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"Jessica’s poetry weaves together beauty and doubt, joy and grief in such a breathtaking way. Somehow both floating and standing firm. Her writing makes me stop and look at ordinary things in a completely different way.
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"Jessica Kantrowitz combines both ethereal beauty and the ordinariness of daily life in ways that make us take a second look, and look deeper. One of my favorites in this collection is "you can't argue with a poem," a brief but profound reminder of ho"
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“It’s like when runners collapse at the end of a marathon. Their exhaustion makes sense if you’ve seen the race. But with depression, it might not be evident from the outside how much you’ve endured up till the moment of collapse. You might not even realize it yourself. It takes miles of running hard to get to the point where your body completely shuts down. Many of us have been running hard for years, pushing ourselves to our very limit. We’ve kept calm and carried on, and now we just can’t anymore. Really, it’s miraculous that we’ve made it this far considering all we’ve been carrying.”
― The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression
― The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression
“You have not yet fully found your place in your community. Your way of being present to your community may require times of absence, prayer, writing, or solitude. ..... Your community needs you, but maybe not as a constant presence . . . your community also needs your creative absence.[6]”
― The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression
― The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression
“The Death of Leaves You are not the leaves which blaze with color every fall, then fall ground into the ground. Their death is not your death. No, you are the tree, which moves its energy down in autumn, to the roots, in ample store. Bare branches best prepared for winter cold and winter winds. That’s not to say the loss of leaves is not a loss. The grief of losing all your color, your connection to the sun is real grief. The stripping is a real stripping. But as every fall speaks of coming spring and every winter holds its end in its beginning your own sap will rise again in longer light nourishing every small branch and you, tree, human, living creature will grow green life again.”
― Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression
― Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“I do know what to do, just never more than one moment at a time. I stop explaining myself, because I learn that making decisions is never about doing the right thing or the wrong thing. It's about doing the precise thing. The precise thing is always incredibly personal and often makes no sense to anyone else. God speaks to folks directly ad one at a time, so I just listen and follow directions. And when I need to work anything out, I turn to the blank page. There, no one can steal my pain or try to poison my knowing, and there I always have the final word in my own story.”
― Love Warrior
― Love Warrior
“You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.”
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