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"A cabin that is not a cabin begins this story that is not a story..."
"A cabin that is not a cabin begins this story that is not a story..." ~ Waylon Lewis, Things I Would Like to do with You⁠ ⁠ Pick up your own copy of #thingsiwouldliketodowithyou during Elephant's Mindful Summer Reading sale: ⁠ shop.elephantjournal.com❤️👉🏽Buy two books, gift one or both, and the second one is half off.⁠ ⁠
Things I Would like to do with You. ⁠
"We can do whatever we like. Perhaps we can eat at my favorite table at a favorite restaurant—I like it because it is outside but shaded, so I can see the sunshine as I work away my life on my laptop. I like it because it is a big table, from which I can see life pass me by on the sidewalk; and I like it because the big table is hidden, so I can work without too many folks stop n’chatting at me. We can get dark kale chips all over our teeth..." ~ Waylon H. Lewis ⁠
5 Books that got me Out of a Rut & What they’re All About.
"All too many of us can relate to the anxiety that comes from someone asking, 'What are you reading?' For many of us, the honest answer—'I can’t remember the last time I opened a book'—doesn’t feel great to admit. After many run-ins with this uncomfortable situation, I realized I had no good excuse for it. Even if we read at a snail’s pace, we ought to take advantage of our literacy and the (virtual) stacks of timeless knowledge available at the click of a finger."
Things I would Like to do with You
"I would like to listen. I could do it half the night, hour turning over hour, until I fall asleepinyourwords. I need to make up time: I need to listen and breathe and take you in and just ⁠stop.⁠ ⁠ I need to relax, and breathe—and what I need most (of course) is to cry. But you will not see my tears, for I cannot quite cry yet." ~ Waylon H. Lewis, Things I would Like to do with You. ⁠ ⁠
Things I would like to do with You.
“And if we never know one another, that will be fine, for you have lit up my month, and for that I bow in thanks. But if I do know you, watch out, for I will light up your already bright life, and we may burn together, like wax paper.” ~ Waylon Hart Lewis, #thingsiwouldliketodowithyou Get your eco Summer read: ebook includes four extra chapters!
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"...perhaps you do not exist, and I shall be an old man wearing a strange hat and smoothed denim rocking in a chair (it will help my old back), staring out at my vague memories of my handsome uneven lucky busy exhausting funny youth. An old man, I look out with foolish eyes at my faded hope and sunsets gone dark, and so finally." ~ Waylon H. Lewis, Things I would Like to do with You. ⁠ ⁠ Get/gift a copy of #thingsiwouldliketodowithyou⁠ shop.elephantjournal.com
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"Later, our love would roll and fall and shatter and float and rise and finally tangle, for years off and on. And though it rose high, it ended as low as all our little loves.⁠ ⁠ I have lost so many sweet hearts because of miscommunication..." ~ Waylon H. Lewis, Things I would Like to do with You. ⁠
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"I would like to have loved you, but I never found your rock bottom. You never let me." ~ Waylon H. Lewis, Things I would Like to do with You.⁠
"Things I would like to do with You" ~ Waylon H. Lewis
“Where will I meet you?⁠ ⁠ When? Will it be because I decide to go right instead of left one day, and get some groceries, or go left instead of right, to dinner or drinks or a café or a party instead of home?⁠ ⁠ Love hangs on the intertwined threads of limitless mutual coincidences: love is not a good business plan.” ~ Waylon Lewis, #thingsiwouldliketodowithyou ⁠ ⁠
It only takes one story.
The world deserves to hear your story—and you deserve to let it out. 💔✨ Take your writing from an idea in your mind to a published story, with Elephant Academy's Writer's Toolkit.⁠
The world deserves to hear you story
The world deserves to hear you story—and you deserve to let it out. 💔✨ Take your writing from an idea in your mind to a published story, with Elephant Academy's Writer's Toolkit.⁠ ⁠ We created this 6-video series to cover everything from finding your voice, uncovering your ideas, polishing your work, and sharing it with the world.⁠ ⁠ It's created by writers, for writers, and applicable to (almost) any kind of writing, whether you're an avid journal-er or a published author.⁠
The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important.
"I will treasure your hair, and your eyes, and your little nose, and your mouth, and the back of your neck, and your strong legs, and your eyebrows: it is fun. But I would like you to know that what is important is what is important and we can laugh at the rest so we can enjoy our row in the boat across the stream.⁠ ⁠ The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.⁠"
Things I Would Like to do With You.
"I would like to go a way’s away, to a Cabin, and I would like to look you in the eyes, and you look me in the eyes, as lovers do, a soft invisible smile—quiet, warm, calm." ~ #waylonlewis, #thingsiwouldliketodowithyou Got the book? Share a fun photo of you and/or it & we might feature you. ❤ 📷 @elportochic
Read. Then write.
Want to become a writer? Read. Then write. Write clearly. Write honestly. Avoid cliché. Write often.⁠ ⁠ Your story matters. ❤
#thingsiwouldlikedtodowithyou⁠
"I would like to communicate with you about difficult things.⁠ ⁠ Love can survive fear only if acknowledged.⁠ ⁠ Things are not easy, always. A love affair is not imagination. It is the vicissitudes of daily life." ~ #waylonlewis, #thingsiwouldlikedtodowithyou⁠ ❤️💔🌙⁠ ⁠