Holly B.F. Warren Artist -Mind Wanderer- Writer Optimist

Category: writing

  • The Landscape of Language: Unfolding, Flattening, and Standing Under

    When we look at words on a page, they often feel static. But if we trace them back to their origins, language reveals itself to be deeply physical, visual, and tactile.  We often treat words  as abstract code, but it is a terrain to be explored, balanced upon, and lived within. To truly grasp how…

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  • The Essential is often Invisible

    “Grown-ups love numbers. When you tell them you’ve made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best?’ Instead, they demand: ‘How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh?…

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  • Where is Home?

    The Architecture of WithinWe spend our lives looking for home in addresses, postal codes, and the solid geometry of bricks and mortar. But a house is just a shell. True home isn’t something we move into; it is something we internally construct. It is an ongoing architecture of the self, a sanctuary built from the…

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  • The Irony of Calm

    Can we calm up?Does it need flaring down? There is a distinct, sharp irony in the phrase Calm down.It arrives not as a life-preserver but as an anchor dropped directly onto a drowning soul. In the theater of high emotion, hearing those two words is like watching someone pull a heavy curtain shut, willfully becoming…

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