Editor Picks — Favourite Posts On CRY Last Week
Image by Julia GaranThis is so much fun. We’re getting at least half a dozen submissions each day and while we can’t post them all, the pieces we do post feel special.
That’s why choosing one is so hard. At the same time, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to enjoying the process. CRY is a special place where we get to indulge in our emotions and express our vulnerabilities. Reading your pieces is a privilege and I recognize how valuable this space is becoming.
OK, enough with the preamble. Here are our Editor Picks for our favourite posts from CRY last week:
Kern
Sometimes, the writing within a piece is so beautiful that it almost doesn’t matter what the story is about. When I first read “I Live For Mid Tide,” I felt transported into a creative world where the energy of words was spiralling all around me.
No, I’m not exaggerating. And when you read this piece by Ellison O. you’ll be immersed in a similar experience. Ironically, the post is about struggling to write. But Ellison describes the struggle so beautifully that I actually wish I struggled, too. In their own words:
I have turned, looked over my shoulder, to see the moon descending from the night sky to invigorate my creative mind, yet in other moments I have struggled, sweating frustration and emitting stress from my pores, hands blistering on the rope as I try to pull the moon on down.
Safia
In a world where we’re often told that success is all about the hustle — waking up earlier, being “team no sleep” and not letting up until we reach our goals, it was refreshing to read Charlie Cole’s piece “Healing Through Rest”. A beautiful reflection and reminder that creatives need rest too. As she writes, “The ability to pause keeps us from quitting altogether…” Using rest to heal ourselves, actually provides us with more space to produce great work.
In her own words:
Rest, what a revolutionary concept. We talk about it a lot, but I fear we do not follow it up with enough action. Productivity has poisoned our relationship to relaxation.
KB
The poetry coming in is extremely touching. I’d like to remind everyone though to process through the questioning and give your insights/experiences a story that others can relate with as well. My favorite piece from last week has got to be Compass by Kevin C. Grant. Kevin takes us through the tumultuous thoughts of wearing a mask to reach society’s golden standard striving to be somebody, before bringing us back to the fact that we need not search to find ourselves. In his own words:
Our gold isn’t in sunken treasures,[image error]
but the beauty of the journey we spend a lifetime journeying to find.
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