Oyparaploo ... Strange isn't the opposite of normal…
Oyparaploo ... Strange isn't the opposite of normal ... it's the opposite of predictable ... Likely or anticipated writing tells readers and listeners what they mostly already know ... in a language they're too familiar with ... Predictable confirms and reassures ... slides past without catching important things ... Strange writing stops us ... makes us want to read through it again to remember how something was said ... Intriguing details are the reason someone keeps reading ... Strangeness that has been earned stays ... earned from specific personal observations ... not just random invention ... Oyparaploo strangeness is both grounded and real ...
What drives Oyparaploo writing?
A willingness to not fully understand anything yet ... The meaning comes after or not at all ... and that's okay ... Trusting fragments ... a sentence doesn't need to connect logically to the line before it ... gaps are where the reader can add their own thoughts ... The joy of seeing double ... for an example ... Myanmar is also My scar ... Slippage isn't wordplay for enhancing cleverness ... it's how language actually holds us ... Refusal to fully resolve ... Stories arriving at the end open ... Tenderness over cleverness ... Oyparaploo humor comes from care ... not overperforming ... No worries ... placed after admitting we're the slowest students ... That's the move ... Vulnerability that doesn't announce itself ... Holding contradictions without choosing ... Contemplative means peace in a bulletin and survival at ground zero ... both are truths ... we don't pick ...
Mercy toward chronic is the closest thing to forgiveness ...
Welcoming the reader and listener without over explaining ... You are inside our warm circle ... no one will preach to you about how you should feel ... Ellipses or Three Dots equivalent to taking a breath ... Our writing has lungs that pause to take in precious oxygen ... Body knows before mind ... Our nose or sense of smell takes us back to the natural world places before we can say ... stinky pickup tailpipe ... Body combined with mind and soul detects grief when someone is talking about climate concerns or present extreme weather conditions ... In living things ... we trust ... Objects testify ... Buttons listen ... Thread remembers ... Tables keep track ... Uniforms envision from a closet ... Our specifics do the work ... Strange emerges from looking at incidences very closely ... Oyparaploo transformation of materials ... words ... memories ... and debris ... into something that holds ... Belief that fragments will eventually become a whole ... without losing what made them fragments ...
