Author: Kieryn Darkwater
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blurb
I keep writing and erasing. I want to write but I don’t know what to say. I know what I want to do with my life and it’s the thing I’ve been doing for the last 3 years. Art. Lots of Art. CRHE. Programming. School. I want to be able to live off…
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I was meant to be an arrow
We would scoff at the idea that people wanted to have well-rounded educated children. I was meant to be an arrow to pierce the darkness and pop all the well-rounded bubbles. << actually a thing that was said. I watched the news nightly from the time I was 8, I listened to Rush Limbaugh and…
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Random update 2k16
This is going to be all disjointed and rambly. I’m feelsy and tired. Things are good and scary and new. I can take ABE courses again this fall, which is helping my brain in a lot of ways. I feel like I sort of have some semblance of a direction now, instead of a confused…
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A Reinvention of Myself
This space over the last 7 years has documented my journey from newly married, just-out quiverfull daughter, to outspokenly queer, artistic, techy, advocate for making homeschooling better for homeschooled students. This blog is where I came out as agnostic, bi, & nonbinary; this is where I posted the process of learning who I am and…
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College Week 4 Day 1
I should be actually doing homework, but I can’t focus and I’m waiting for coffee to kick in while contemplating finding out if I have ADD/ADHD because reasons. I turned in my first paper today and omg feels. I’ve never turned in a paper where the grade actually mattered in a real way, so this…
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Club Fair and Trivia
Meanwhile.
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Tuesday
I was going to do micro blogs after school or whatever but ran into trouble on my phone, but then I realized, I still have a few minutes before my night class and I’m in the library waiting for my second wind and wishing I had coffee, and I might as well write a thing.…
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Feels: College wk 1
First week of school was sort of a whir. Hard but good….looking at essays as intensely as we have has sometimes been really hard to handle emotionally, and in a way I wasn’t — am not — prepared for. I love doing school and being in that environment and I want to be actively involved…
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Week One of Actual College in Pictures
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Lean On Me
So I had an epiphany over the weekend while coming home after being surrounded by people like me at a conference over the weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUNR3jP13w We were singing Lean On Me in the car, and I realized….while pushing the words out of my mouth, that um, it’s totally okay to not be only absorbing…