Kim DeRose

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Austin Kleon shared this piece on fall from Joy Williams’ essay “Autumn,” and I loved it so much that I wanted to share it as well. “There is no such thing as time going straight on to new things. This is an illusion. Okay? And clinging to this illusion makes it difficult to understand oneself and one’s life and what is happening to one. Time is repetition, a circle. This is obvious. Day and night, the seasons, tell us this. Even so, we don’t believe it. Time is not a circle, we think. Spring screams the opposite to us, of course, and summer seduces us into believing that we’re all going to live forever. Winter couldn’t care less what we think about time. But fall cares. Instructive, tactful, subtle, fall is a philosophy all its own. Occult, secretive, taking pleasure in sleep, in rest. Fall’s comfortless, honest rot. In the beginning in most places it’s showy, the better to mask its melancholy: raging leaves and spanking breezes, edgy with the real cold. And that special, solemn light. For fall is for melan- cholics and those in love. The torchy sort of love. Forget spring. Spring is nothing but promise, a reproach to melancholics. Spring makes us forget the deal, whereas fall is the deal. The unutterable, unalterable deal. Fall is. It always comes round, with its lovely patience. If in the beginning it’s restless, at the end it’s re signed, complete in its waiting, complete in the utter correctness of what it has to tell us. Which is that we’re transitory. We’re transient, we’re temporary, we’re all only sometime. We will pass and someone else will take our place. Our pursuit of living founders each time we remember this. Fall is the darkening window, the one Hart Crane had in mind in his poem “Fear,” the window on which likes the night. (Found in Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals.) #timeisaflatcircle #mementomori

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In case youre feeling the tug of despair and need a ritual to help you burn bright. Visit kimderose.substack.com for the full ritual. #witchtok #rituals #ritualsforthereligiouslytraumatized

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Yes, I’m nine months out from publication, and yes this is an absolutely terrible DIY cover mock (intentionally so!) But I am so freaking excited about this book and so eager for you to meet these wild girls. If you have religious trauma, or feminist rage, or a penchant for unruly girls, or all of the above, this book is for you. When Rue is caught kissing a girl behind the Sunday school classrooms and sent away to Sacred Heart all-girls Catholic boarding school (an irony she’s very much aware of) she’s pretty sure her life is over. Never in her wildest dreams does she imagine that Sacred Heart will wind up being the most transformative experience of her life. But that’s only because she’s yet to meet steely-eyed school outcast, Charlotte Savage, an untouchable school weirdo who has a habit of sneaking off into the woods at night. More importantly, it’s because she’s yet to find her pack, a group of girls she wouldn’t have ever anticipated being friends with but soon realizes she can’t live without. But most importantly it’s because she’s lived her entire life caged, always feeling likes she’s either too much or somehow not enough, but she’s about to discover what it feels like to finally own her wild. #hearherhowl #staywild #yabooks #booktok #2025bookreleases #yabooktok #keephowling #sapphicbooks #sapphictiktok #sapphicyabooks