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1:11 - Welcome Back!  5:23 - A Story On Leaving, by Kim  22:53 - Piraguero by Lenah  50:44 - All The Same by Khesrau Behroz

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1:00 - Show Intro, What is Messy Bun about? 4:36 - Quick Check In: Let's Talk About Tomatoes & Enjoying Success 13:00 - Alison Tusick - Dream Journal From Quarantine (IG @tvsick) 29:00 - https://www.idreamofcovid.com/ 30:52 - Lenah's Story (Fiction Prompt - Write a story where you're the bad guy) 48:12 - Kim's Story (Non-fiction Prompt - Write a story about how you're feeling/check in) 53:31 - Pardon the funky Zoom connectivity - it gets resolved 1:01:15 - Circling back: Vulnerability 1:05:22 - Discussing the Emmys 1:14:47 - Prompts: Theme for next week: Home; Non-fiction - Write a story about home. Fiction – Write your family folklore, fiction or otherwise.  Submit your story via gmail makeitmessybun@gmail.com! Follow up on twitter @makeitmessybun

*We are social distancing – and we do record via Zoom. 


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  • Intros! Welcome Back!!
  • Lenah's Story
  • Kim's Story: A Love Letter to My Best Friend
  • Care Package
  • Prompts: A. Non-fiction: Write a journal entry, processing your feelings right now. B. Write a story where you are the bad guy.

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1:04 - Welcome and checking in

4:55 - SongExploder

23:00 - Lenah's Freewrite

46:00 - Kim's Song

52:00 - This Week's Care Package


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  • 8:38 - Expensive Taste Test by Cosmopolitan
  • 20:24 - Poetry Reading - Ode to an Onion by Pablo Neruda
  • 39:40 - Tucked In by Kim

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10:32 - Dr. Nicole LePera - Th Holistic Psychologist www.instagram.com/the.holistic.psychologist/?hl=en

21:58 - Kim's Story - *Trigger warning, this story talks about body image

30:57 - Lenah's Story

59:05 - Audio Books from your Library: www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/

1:01:32 - 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions - hbr.org/2016/11/3-ways-to-bet…erstand-your-emotions


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Show Notes:

  • Check out this podcast: Unlocking Us with Brené Brown #unlockingUsWithBreneBrown

feeds.megaphone.fm/unlocking-us via @PodcastAddict * Submit your stories by e-mail to makeitmessybun@gmail.com * Week 3 Prompts: Write a story where your character interacts with a tree; Write a story where your character uncovers a secret they didn't want to know; Write a story about friendship


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  • 2:17 - Show Intro, Checking In

  • 4:47 - Quarantine Dreams - www.idreamofcovid.com/

  • 11:10 - Evelyn From The Internets - Procrastination SUCKS: 3 reasons why you should FINISH things (or just quit lol)- youtu.be/VLJVkfhBLxo

  • 12:30 - Marie Forleo - News Got You Down? How to Offset the Negative News Cycle with Tank Sinatra - www.marieforleo.com/2020/04/good-ne…s-tank-sinatra/

  • 21:13 - Story 1 - Perreo by Cristal

  • 30:55 - Story 2 - A Story by Kim

  • 44:38 - Story 3 - Three Hours before the Party; The Party; After the Party

  • 1:01:51 - The Midnight Gospel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQWAqjFJS0

  • 1:02:29 - Sticky Fingers - STICKY BUNS via UberEats - @stickyfingersdc

Next Week's Theme/Prompt - Nostalgia:

  • Re-imagine a favorite childhood story but set in a non-fantastical context

  • Describe an object that makes you nostalgic. What is the memory? What is the feeling?

  • Write an old family story that's been passed down from generation to generation; alternatively - imagine one

  • Write a story or fact that your parents told you growing up, that you later learned wasn't true


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