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  • Making Time: How Ondaatje Taught Me To Show Up For Myself, or Plotting vs. Pantsing
    Making Time: How Ondaatje Taught Me To Show Up For Myself, or Plotting vs. Pantsing
    February 27, 2020

    Making Time: How Ondaatje Taught Me To Show Up For Myself, or Plotting vs. Pantsing

    There are some books whose images stay with us long after we’ve read them, far more than the stories or the characters themselves. An image that has stayed with me over the years is from The English ...

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