Imperfect Speech

Readings from Rudyard Kipling (If..), Robert Frost (The Road Less Traveled), Phillis Wheatley (On Virtue), and William Allen Dromgoole (The Bridge Builder). Special thanks to my guest Ilias Shepherd Marrow.

Thank you 🥰Eldridge Brown 🥰, Lila Cave-Park, and Hillary Marek for the pleasure of reading your poems.

Someday this will all end...

Thank you The Secret Ingredient, Shirley Figueroa, NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge, and many others for tuning into my live video with Stefan Pasek! Join me for my next live video in the app.

Thank you Odel Asseille, The Bathrobe Guy (Robes) 👘, Alexey Zaitsev, Krissy, Ilias Shepherd Marrow, Travis Hupp, thank you for the pleasure of reading your work.

🥰Eldridge Brown 🥰 I had audio issues in the beginning, so I had to drop the feed, but you are first up tomorrow morning. Lila Cave-Park, your poem will also be featured tomorrow.

Drop your submissions here:

Jake Gardner, Timothy E. Lambert, Stone Wolf, Aliwritesherlife, Jon Murphy, Songs from a Cold Kitchen, and Andrea (Andy) Curran 🌄, thank you for submitting your poems to be read.

🥰Eldridge Brown 🥰, Hina Gondal, Alexey Zaitsev, I will be reading your poems on the next go around.

Thank you everyone for trusting me with your words.

Head over to my Subchat to drop your poems.

Thank you, Petty Labelle, for the inspiration.

Thank you The stranger, Nabanita, Bob Johnson, Sarah-SMR, Timothy E. Lambert, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.

CHAT TRANSCRIPT

Sarah-SMR joined

Mack Devlin

Hey, Sarah

A Little Bit Taller

Looking forward to hearing this!

Sarah-SMR

Hey, Mack

AnabellDreamsAllDay

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Mack Devlin

Everything sound good?

Sarah-SMR

Yes

The stranger

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The stranger

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A Little Bit Taller

Great

Elliott Marso joined

The Quantum Quill

Hi everyone 👋

The Quantum Quill

Aaliya, wonderful to hear you speak!

Pelle Martens joined

A Little Bit Taller

Happy to hear your voice, Aaliya

Sarah-SMR

Wow. That is very impressive

The Quantum Quill

Heyo Devlin 👋

Tina Crossgrovejoined

David Morris

Hello hello

Pelle Martens

Beautiful Aaliya 🤍

Mack Devlin

Hi, everyone

Mack Devlin

Will be in and out, gotta capture the chat

Timothy E. Lambert joined

A Little Bit Taller

Great job, Mack

Timothy E. Lambert

Hey hey!

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Bob Johnson

Please say hello to Aaliya from me i love Austin as well. Bob your friend 8000 mikes away xx

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The Quantum Quill

Ooh, favorite disney movie?

Timothy E. Lambert

Aaliya, if I may asks, where are you from?

The Quantum Quill

beautiful personal history

Mack Devlin

Timothy, she is from Oman

Timothy E. Lambert

Oh, that checks. I figured she was from the Middle East, somewhere.

A Little Bit Taller

She is so full of light!

Timothy E. Lambert

Amen to that.

The Quantum Quill

I always really enjoy her messages and find myself resonating and restacking them

HeartScribe joined

A Little Bit Taller

So kind and humble

The Quantum Quill

Hi Victoria 👋

HeartScribe

Hi there 💞

A Little Bit Taller

Hi Victoria

HeartScribe

Nice to see everyone!

A Little Bit Taller

We are happy you’re here

The Quantum Quill

Its so much more personable than a platform like IG is

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The stranger

Hello everyone and thank you Mack and Krissy for hosting

The Quantum Quill

Aaliya speaks much like she writes, which is so neat to hear.

The stranger

Plessure to lsten to you, Aaliya

The stranger

ou speak poetically

The stranger

you*

HeartScribe

Love getting to hear Aaliya’s voice. She does sounds like her writing, Ryan 💞

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Sarah-SMR

It sounds beautiful

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Thanks for the heads up Sarah

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Timothy E. Lambert

Wow!

Sarah-SMR

No problem Ilias

HeartScribe

Hi Sarah, Ilias, imi, Timothy, stranger 💞

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Aloha Imi

The stranger

Hi HeartScribe

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Aloha Heart

Sarah-SMR

Hey Heart

HeartScribe

💞

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Aloha Stranger

Timothy E. Lambert

Mashallah.

The stranger

Alohaa Iliaas

A Little Bit Taller

This community is such a special place

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Timothy!!!! Aloha my bro

HeartScribe

I agree, Matt.

Nabanitajoined

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Aloha Lil’Bit

A Little Bit Taller

Hi Nabanita

HeartScribe

Hi Nabanita 💞

Mack Devlin

Salalah Oasis

Nabanita

Hi Matt

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HeartScribe

Hi Mack

HeartScribe

Hi Jo 💞

Nabanita

I want that coffee!

Sarah-SMR

I wanna live there.

A Little Bit Taller

Hi Ilias

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The Quantum Quill

It looks really beautiful and peaceful.

A Little Bit Taller

You are a wonderful representative of Oman

The Quantum Quill

Wow

HeartScribe

Looks good 💖💖💖

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Can we spell that in the chat

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Ohhhh Mack!

Timothy E. Lambert

Oh I love that!\

Krissy

kahwah

The stranger

Kunafe

HeartScribe

now I’m hungry

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

I love baklava… Bill is from Jordan and he cooks a ton of Middle East food for me. Following the Ancient Diet has helped my health dramatically

Nabanita

Hi Mack

The Quantum Quill

I still want to know favorite disney movie growing up if we get to questions from chat :)

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

It’s wonderful ta hear yer voice to Mack

Sarah-SMR

Do they have traditional music they stick with Aaliya ?

A Little Bit Taller

I see that.

HeartScribe

awwww...Cinderella 💖💖💖

A Little Bit Taller

You will

The Quantum Quill

I loved the mice in the movie

The Quantum Quill

and yes its a lovely story

A Little Bit Taller

Heart of gold

The Quantum Quill

All great films ✨

A Little Bit Taller

Do you have a favorite song?

Sarah-SMR

Oops. I just realized I typed it wrong. It’s fine cause she ended up answering it anyway

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Are you familiar with Rugs? 🥰

A Little Bit Taller

Perfect

HeartScribe

Oh, me too --- classic Louis Armstrong

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

I just cleaned a 100 year old Omar Khan

Jo

oh everyone, look up the tv show ‘the Detectoriststs’

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Nabanita

Love that song!

A Little Bit Taller

Favorite movie?

HeartScribe

Hi Donna

Donna Porretto Geisler

Hi!

Jo

detectorisists

Jo

detectorists

HeartScribe

💞 Oh cool.

Nabanita

Thanks Mack!

The Quantum Quill

Great song

HeartScribe

Thanks, Mack.

A Little Bit Taller

Nice

Sarah-SMR

Wonderful

HeartScribe

I just needed to turn up my volume

Donna Porretto Geisler

Question for Aaliya -- I sometimes write to you in Spanish, do you also speak Spanish?

A Little Bit Taller

This could be Aaliya’s theme song

A Little Bit Taller

You’d be great

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Well it was Bedouin flat weave “Kilim” rug from Oman

HeartScribe

I’d love you to start a podcast, Aaliya 💞

A Little Bit Taller

Who would you interview?

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Awww You’re such a sweetheart!

Derek

Hey all👐

HeartScribe

love that, Aaliya

HeartScribe

hi Derek!

A Little Bit Taller

Thank you

The Quantum Quill

100%

Sarah-SMR

That is an amazing idea

Derek

Same

HeartScribe

Yessss. Stories give us hope.

A Little Bit Taller

We are here for you

HeartScribe

Yes.

Nabanita

Mack is a gentleman.

HeartScribe

yes he is

Sarah-SMR

Sure is. 🤜🔥🔥🔥

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

100% Mack we appreciate you sir! You’re connecting so many people together! Our family has attempted to record Padre’s story’s for my entire life! What you are all doing is beyond Phenomenal!

HeartScribe

Same, Aaliya.

A Little Bit Taller

Same with me. Agreed

The Quantum Quill

Yes many of us sympathize with this 🤍

Mack Devlin

🤜🔥🔥🔥🔥

Jo

Having injury and illness - all of you have helped me in healing. Thank you

HeartScribe

Agree, Ryan.

A Little Bit Taller

Perfectly said

Donna Porretto Geisler

Such a beautiful soul!

A Little Bit Taller

Yes!

HeartScribe

Life is hard -- we all need kindness.

The Quantum Quill

Agree Victoria. And yes I think many of us can feel that safety and peace in connection

HeartScribe

💞💞💞

Nabanita

You are the most positive soul on this platform.

HeartScribe

You exude that love...

HeartScribe

we all feel it

Donna Porretto Geisler

Indeed!

A Little Bit Taller

You can see that love in your writing

A Little Bit Taller

It’s inspirational

HeartScribe

now that is true

Derek

Keep it real

A Little Bit Taller

Yes!

The Quantum Quill

❤️‍🔥 100%

R.S.T.

Life os

R.S.T.

Life is fair

Nabanita

That people who got good grades were good people.

A Little Bit Taller

Life can be easy (I had a transplant at 11)

Derek

That if you tell the truth when you done wrong that consequences will be less

Jo

I went blink blink. I was never convinced of anything

The Quantum Quill

“Others will only love me if I act the way they want me to” something i believed for many years.

The Quantum Quill

lol at quicksand

Sarah-SMR

That others actions define me. I believed that for a long time.

Derek

Quicksand is real just not as often found

A Little Bit Taller

People would see me as I saw myself, as different

HeartScribe

That I had to hide my flaws to be accepted...

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Oooft! Thank goodness my Literature grades did not determine my humanity!!!

Derek

That’s why they are hosting...

Jo

I was convinced a wooden spoon hurt my butt when spanked

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HeartScribe

Hi Secret

Derek

Oof that is truth

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Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Mrs. Ingredient!!!!

HeartScribe

Hi Cheryl

The Secret Ingredient

Ilias

The Secret Ingredient

Hello

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

🥰🥰🥰

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

🤟🤟🤟

Donna Porretto Geisler

That my family was “normal.”

The Secret Ingredient

Heart Scribe!!!

A Little Bit Taller

Yet you still are filled with love

HeartScribe

Hey there 💞

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Eggs-erroneous @Mack (Ernest goes to camp)

The Quantum Quill

Ooh thats a good one

A Little Bit Taller

Normal is Overrated

Nabanita

Do you think these bad experiences erode trust in others?

Donna Porretto Geisler

I second that!

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Ilias Shepherd Marrow

All the Freaky People Make the Beauty of the World

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

—Michael Franti & Spearhead

Jo

What is your favorite smell?

HeartScribe

Yeah.

A Little Bit Taller

The light you shine is proof of that. You show love is real

Nabanita

That’s a great attitude Alia

A Little Bit Taller

Inspiring

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

I’ve had two divorces as well! Do you see them as life lessons too?

HeartScribe

certain abuses have definitely caused trust issues in certain areas.

NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge

Cynicism seems like a type of avoidance

Sarah-SMR

I have learned so much in this whole interview.

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

When body building … Failure demands muscle growth and strength.

Derek

How does one know without finding an opposing perspective

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Life in the same as long as we do not attempt to cover up or lie to ourselves regarding failure

Nabanita

Shout out to Chrissie. Asking great questions. Hoping I spelled her name right.

NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge

Learning things is the best, isn’t it Sarah?

A Little Bit Taller

It’s all about attitude and how you live through them

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

When we accept Failure… our mind begins to work on the solution

Sarah-SMR

Yes it is Neuro

Sarah-SMR

I think I’ll always remember that Neuro

Donna Porretto Geisler

Yes!

HeartScribe

Definitely.

NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge

Absolutely, Ilias!

Derek

Reflection and self awareness is crucial

NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge

Yes, Derek

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Derek

A blessing

NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge

Ok. It’s hot outside. Gotta go back inside where I do not want to bare beat anyone. Lol

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Absolutely Divine!

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Ilias Shepherd Marrow

John!!

HeartScribe

Hi John

A Little Bit Taller

Yes

HeartScribe

same

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Sean says Petrichor is also a scent in some fine wines

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HeartScribe

Hi V.

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Aloha V

Derek

The birds in the background were lovely

HeartScribe

My heart agrees with that.

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

We can do better 🤔 fer sher

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

I didn’t know that till now too

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Traffic & sirens

The Secret Ingredient

Lawn mower s

Derek

Jack hammers or leaf blowers

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Yes!!!!! Ya nailed that negative tone and voice intent

HeartScribe

Same here.

A Little Bit Taller

Definitely

Jo

Noises of people who are in bad faith make the hair on my forearms raise and it hurts

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

I had to tell an ex their voice sounded like Crystal getting smashed into a porcelain sink! I didn’t like what I felt like around them after their fake cadence diminished.

A Little Bit Taller

Me too. For you...

Donna Porretto Geisler

Me too! We have to stand up for each other!

A Little Bit Taller

Receive help?

HeartScribe

I can understand that.

Ilias Shepherd Marrow

Hard to recover from Energy Vampires

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Jo

my forearms are not hurting, thank you

HeartScribe

Hi Nimila

A Little Bit Taller

That’s just who you are. Amazing

Nimila the Inferno

Hello everyone ❤️

Sarah-SMR

That just hit really hard. Very good question

HeartScribe

beautiful.

A Little Bit Taller

you are that

The Secret Ingredient

I fell such tears by Aalyias response

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At Em

Hi my name is

Sarah-SMR

Me too. I am crying.

HeartScribe

Hi At Em.

At Em

Hello

A Little Bit Taller

Great job!

HeartScribe

Enjoyed this so much.

The Quantum Quill

A wonderful conversation!

The Quantum Quill

Great interviewing Krissy

HeartScribe

Yes, thank you Krissy, Mack, and Aaliya

The Secret Ingredient

Good job all!! Krissy

Sarah-SMR

Wonderful!! 🫶🏻

A Little Bit Taller

Wonderful by all

Thank you Sarah-SMR, Derek, Tangled Words, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.

Thank you Becky Hayward, Elijah Westin, Ilias Shepherd Marrow, Tangled Words, Cailin, and many others for tuning into my live video with Sturg Writes It Down, The Quantum Quill, Fiona Bridges, and Stefan Pasek! Join me for my next live video in the app.

A Reading of Dolce Et Decorum Est by Mack Devlin