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Steph Fizer Coleman
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🎨 Maker of picture books. Watcher of birds. Painter, gardener, reader, tea drinker.
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The Kurt Vonnegut letter to those high school kids is never wrong -
Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to high school students - "Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut"
August 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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🎉🎉🎉
July 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
stephfc.bsky.social
thanks Natasha!
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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For a hot second, I thought it said "earnest newt" and I was like yeah he's a serious guy, that makes sense 😂
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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well you've worked so so hard and it's just a joy to see the pieces finally coming together for you!
April 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Amazing! So happy for you I could cry 🥹
April 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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You're a monster! That's a textural nightmare food 😂
April 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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season three, but you already know that!
April 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Thanks for sharing, Sarah!
April 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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thank you for not using AI!
April 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM