You searched for paradox — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/ words and images for mindful humans Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:29:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png You searched for paradox — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/ 32 32 On the flip side of life, trauma is your honor https://www.emmpress.com/on-the-flip-side-of-life-trauma-is-your-honor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-flip-side-of-life-trauma-is-your-honor Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:29:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=19583 After disasters, harsh realities, assh*les, and accidents, we are 100% allowed to be grateful those aspects of Self that help us to carry on. CRYSTALLINE CLARIFICATION HERE: this…

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]]> Taking time… https://www.emmpress.com/taking-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-time Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:35:34 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=18269 On “taking time for oneself,” rest, idiomatic expressions, etymology, and art from this week. I occasionally steal time to do things like watch movies, walk in nature, write…

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]]> covering: artist’s statement https://www.emmpress.com/covering-artists-statement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covering-artists-statement Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:47:57 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17478 I cover nature. Daily drawings are digital finger painting atop photos, and include collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as images in…

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]]> Sushi Bake Beliefs https://www.emmpress.com/sushi-bake-beliefs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sushi-bake-beliefs Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:57:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16902 On Food Culture, Balls of Beliefs, Paradox, Music, and Menopause Yesterday my daughter found a recipe for a Sushi Bake, and I was immediately skeptical. Who wants to…

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]]> On making love, not war, and the silent majority https://www.emmpress.com/on-making-love-not-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-making-love-not-war Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:29:06 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15975 When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…

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]]> Perspicacious: a term of endearment https://www.emmpress.com/perspicacious-a-term-of-endearment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=perspicacious-a-term-of-endearment Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:19:05 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14585 I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love. The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I’d…

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]]> Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it) https://www.emmpress.com/heres-my-story-and-im-not-sticking-to-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-my-story-and-im-not-sticking-to-it Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:50:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14214 I’ve been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my…

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]]> “Yeah, No” and knowing what you’ve really got https://www.emmpress.com/yeah-no-and-knowing-what-youve-really-got/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yeah-no-and-knowing-what-youve-really-got Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:23:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13994 Originally published by Newsletter 9/3/2025 Hello Reader, I keep thinking I’m supposed to write relatable material here, and then, I think, I’m probably not relatable and maybe it’s…

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]]> Rebellion | emergence from dark into light https://www.emmpress.com/rebellion-emergence-into-light/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebellion-emergence-into-light Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:30:31 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10426 Why new voices from the subconscious matter to all of us. I admire teenagers and young people who rail against every day culture and bring new music and…

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]]> “That doesn’t happen here” https://www.emmpress.com/that-doesnt-happen-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=that-doesnt-happen-here Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:16:14 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10207 Feminine Power in the Face of Fighting: A Waitress Story. At 22, I started working as a cocktail waitress and bartender at a jazz club in New York…

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]]> Naming, Angels, and Missing Sisters https://www.emmpress.com/names-angels-and-missing-sisters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=names-angels-and-missing-sisters Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:28:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8679 Can anyone truly see what’s missing? It’s a paradoxical view. What’s in a name? One of my teachers told me folks with the last name DeAngelis or DiPrete…

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]]> Stale questions, fresh answers https://www.emmpress.com/stale-questions-fresh-answers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stale-questions-fresh-answers Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:21:43 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7333 I’m treating myself to some new questions in my self-styled spa day today, because my old questions haven’t been serving up much joy or love. I have a…

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]]> Your ordinary, extraordinary life https://www.emmpress.com/your-ordinary-extraordinary-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-ordinary-extraordinary-life Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:11:31 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=6192 There is a form if you’d like to share on this topic below. The first part of my life, I wanted to be extraordinary. Driven by a distant…

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]]> Collections of an art dilettante https://www.emmpress.com/collections-of-an-art-dilettante/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=collections-of-an-art-dilettante Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:56:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4788 I had a high school art teacher whom I used to bump into in my 20’s say to me, “I’m so sorry I suggested you go to that…

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]]> Reconciling Paradox – an Artist’s Way https://www.emmpress.com/reconciling-paradox-the-artists-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reconciling-paradox-the-artists-way Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:30:24 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4579 Art CV at bottom of this page, includes cyber art citations back to 1997-2003. Here’s another installment of my younger self aiming to figure stuff out, and simply…

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