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Jess Smiley's avatar

Love love love. Your metamorphosis is beautiful. It’s all I ever wanted.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Aw, Jess, thank you!

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Indigo Esmonde's avatar

I am sighing with pleasure.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

That delights me!

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Alicia Dara's avatar

Tina, many YOUR flame burn for at least 1200 years <3

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Oh, Alicia. Yours, too. XO 🔥

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Rebecca Davis's avatar

Thank you for this mental breath.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

🧡

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Jeffrey Streeter's avatar

Wonderful! But I can feel the "awayuki" beginning to melt in the hot gaze of our admiration.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

O no

Ok, we’ll turn away.

(and thank you)

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Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

Love, love, love this

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Thank you, Eleanor!

XO

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Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

It's funny and exacting and right on the money.

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Susanna Burney's avatar

I am! Thank you! xox

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Susanna Burney's avatar

It took getting a cold and staying home from work to get around to this--that's how I got the cold--I was too busy even for this, and bam! there it was (the cold from overdoing), just like the "good old days".

Thank you for bravely shaping silence around a thought and sharing it. xox

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Hope you’re feeling better, dear Burney XO

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Ursula | Lunardakini.com's avatar

L O V E. I’m impressed! And relaxed. Usually, I’m neither. Well done.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Love to hear this, Ursula. Thank you!

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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

I just LOVE this... I can't even tell you. It reminds me of a Murakami visual poetry experiment that's specifically making new use of Substack as a form. Huzzah!

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Ah, that makes me so happy, Alisa. Thank you!

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Chloe Hope's avatar

Yes. Just, so much yes

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Tina Rowley's avatar

So happy you feel that way, Chloe, thank you 🎈

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Becky Bruhn's avatar

This format, these pages, is what I wish books looked like. Or maybe they kind of do look like that. Either way, I love them and their content. But what I wanted to say was that I put myself out there in the world in video and it's hard. I almost always have a reaction to it afterward that is a little like crumpling. It feels crappy and I want to hide and protect myself. And when I'm feeling really bad about it, sad, regretful, ashamed, whatever, I think of you. You who puts yourself out here over and over again in the most amazing, raw, beautiful ways. My "exposures" have been cured and packaged, but yours are (or maybe just feel) much closer to the living heart. I commend you for your bravery, Tina.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Becky. This means so much. And I get it, viscerally--the hot, hidey, post-exposure crumple. It’s wild, really. It’s a thing.

Keep going and please yourself like crazy. We only have x amount of time so fuck it.

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Jenna Newell Hiott's avatar

I love this! It feels like it set my cells aright. I can't believe the story about the 1200 year old flame! How wondrous! I'm so glad I was never put in charge of keeping that alive. Also, side note, the picture of the plain white rectangle is the one I unconsciously chose to expand. I think that must mean something. Thank you for this beautiful offering!

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Oh, that makes me very happy, your cells feeling freshened. Thank you, Jenna. (And I am also extremely relieved that I never had to take a shift.) And I like that you took a closer look at the white rectangle!

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Odd Positive's avatar

oof right out the gate with that house made of sh. I'm loving the new typset format, it's so evocative and shapes the text so much more than just litteraly

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Tina Rowley's avatar

I’m so glad you’re digging it. Thank you!

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

This is as thrilling and awakening as diving into fresh, cold snow. I love it!

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Lizzie, you don’t know what a perfect compliment that is--or, apparently, you do! I couldn’t like it any better and I thank you so much.

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Michael Maupin 🄾🄵 🅂🅃🄾🅁🅈🅂🄷🄴🄳's avatar

That seems right. Well done.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Thanks, Comdar, I like that it seems right to you

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