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But the child was lingering in the bedroom in his dressing gown, half slumped against the edge of his bed, legs outstretched, idly stroking the cat.
‘Will you just shut up?’ the child said to me.
A part of me wished, too, that I would just shut up. I was annoying myself with the routine of getting ready to leave the house, which, truth be told, I would rather not have had to partake in at all.
— Apr 11, 2026 10:11PM
‘Will you just shut up?’ the child said to me.
A part of me wished, too, that I would just shut up. I was annoying myself with the routine of getting ready to leave the house, which, truth be told, I would rather not have had to partake in at all.
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Rachel Buteaux
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Write-ful Fury - Claire G. Coleman
“Fury. It can flow hot and fast like fire dancing along a trail of petrol; it can flow cold, slow and relentless like a glacier; or as cold and breathtakingly fast as an avalanche … The only thing that can survive the passage of intense fury is the elemental force itself. Unless I clear a path for it, unless I help it flow and choose its direction, it will destroy me.”
— Apr 13, 2026 08:16PM
“Fury. It can flow hot and fast like fire dancing along a trail of petrol; it can flow cold, slow and relentless like a glacier; or as cold and breathtakingly fast as an avalanche … The only thing that can survive the passage of intense fury is the elemental force itself. Unless I clear a path for it, unless I help it flow and choose its direction, it will destroy me.”
Rachel Buteaux
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Stuck in the Middle by Carrie Cox
“Everything happens at the wrong time. All of it.
Resolve, regret, wisdom, passion, the first desperate intake of life itself …
There is beauty in this, in the messy, hopeful bingo of it all, but there is also suffering. And at the core of that suffering - the suffering of being unalterably human - is poor timing, about which we can deal very little.”
— Apr 12, 2026 09:52PM
“Everything happens at the wrong time. All of it.
Resolve, regret, wisdom, passion, the first desperate intake of life itself …
There is beauty in this, in the messy, hopeful bingo of it all, but there is also suffering. And at the core of that suffering - the suffering of being unalterably human - is poor timing, about which we can deal very little.”
Rachel Buteaux
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I’ve just added Julienne Van Loon’s books to my to-read list after reading her essay: Regardless of Decorum: A Response to Seneca’s ‘Of Anger’ which made a powerful impression on me.
— Apr 11, 2026 10:37PM
Rachel Buteaux
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“… at the moment of launching the shoe, I was conscious of my son, who was eight at the time, and hovering in the doorframe to his own bedroom, squarely next to mine. I was angry with him. Possible reasons for this are many: … I was throwing the shoe at the wall, or at an empty room, or at nothing. And yet the demonstration of the anger was for his benefit. That’s an uncomfortable fact. “
— Apr 11, 2026 09:52PM