Maggie Smith
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Columbus, Ohio, The United States
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December 2010
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
12 editions
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2023
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Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
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2020
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Goldenrod: Poems
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2021
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Good Bones
4 editions
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2017
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The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison
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2015
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My Thoughts Have Wings
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Lamp of the Body
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2005
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The List of Dangers
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2010
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Disasterology
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Keep Moving: The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love
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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two.”
― Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
― Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
“How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go.
Inside forty-something me is the woman I was in my thirties, the woman I was in my twenties, the teenager I was, the child I was.
Inside divorced me: married me, the me who loved my husband, the me who believed what we had was irrevocable and permanent, the me who believed in permanence.
I still carry these versions of myself. It's a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Inside forty-something me is the woman I was in my thirties, the woman I was in my twenties, the teenager I was, the child I was.
Inside divorced me: married me, the me who loved my husband, the me who believed what we had was irrevocable and permanent, the me who believed in permanence.
I still carry these versions of myself. It's a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
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Dec 05, 2010 11:29AM
Hi, Mags!
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