Author: Whirlyjoy
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Pushcart nomination for “Yes, Bye, Where?”
This essay, published in the remarkable Under the Sun literary journal earlier this year, is a perfect example of inspiration meeting perspiration: the underlying spark of an event that held within it all the confounding realities of raising my disabled daughter, expressed in storytelling informed by craft classes, workshops, and the gracious and gifted support…
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Circling the Center launch
My new Substack, Circling the Center, officially launched this month. It is kind of a Spin Cycle spinoff (for those who knew that older blog of mine) but also new and different now, because so am I! Check out my first post, and then please click to subscribe over there in Substack.
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Hummingbird Manifesto
I am going to follow the ruby glint of the Anna’s hummingbird away from my potted fuchsia out past the tip of the gnarly cedar until she passes into sunshine. I am going to spread my own wings in glittering unfurled feathery glory whenever stacked plates unpaid bills cracked windshield grimy bathtub pull at me. …
Joy Gehner, Writer 