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Aftertongue by Stay Zen

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WEEKLY ROLL CALL 9/6/26 - 9/12/26
This week’s Resonance Roll Call is in! ✍🏾🔥 The board may change, but the energy behind these names stays consistent. Congratulations to @Ericka Floyd who despite all she keeps showing up!!! Also to @Naomie Thomas & @M. a. Dennis for taking this week’s Top 3, and much love to every writer who continues to pour into this community. Much love to @Mick Collins @Craven Smith @Michelle Cox @Laron Henderson @Tierrah Nicole @Cynthia Jacob Different voices. One space. Still resonating. 🖤✨
WEEKLY ROLL CALL 9/6/26 - 9/12/26
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@Naomie Thomas me as well 🙏🏽
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AFTERTONGUE™ WORD DROP #045: LESSHELD ✦
Release has an afterimage. Even after something leaves your hands, the body can keep bracing for its weight. Lessheld names the space that appears when carrying finally changes and your system has to learn the new dimensions. At first, freedom can feel oddly unfamiliar. The shoulders wait for pressure that never arrives. The calendar opens. The mind reaches for an old obligation and finds air. Lessheld is the moment capacity returns quietly enough to be mistaken for emptiness. What became possible after you finally set something down? ✨ SEAL OF ENOUGHNESS ✨ I allow less to be enough.
AFTERTONGUE™ WORD DROP #045: LESSHELD ✦
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Often, I was told I had a lot of things. Never considered myself a hoarder. But sentimental in holding on to keepsakes. They held memories of my mother who passed away 6 1/2 years ago. Memories of my children growing up. Their drawings— their certificates their awards. Memories of when I was 3 to 4 sizes smaller in hopes that I would get back down to at least two dress sizes. Memories of the countries I’ve lived in—Europe and different parts of America. But now something as innocent as water & mold has pushed me into a lessheld state. So most things have been discarded, but memories became the tangible phantom that make me feel these things still exist. In this case, less is more.
🃏 TRICKSTER-TEXT THURSDAY: The Sentence Has an Alibi
Today, one sentence is getting away with something. Write an ordinary sentence: “I forgot to call you.” Now make one tiny change that completely changes what the reader thinks happened. You may change one word, one punctuation mark, or where the emphasis falls. Example: I forgot to call you. Suddenly, somebody else got that call. 👀 Drop your original sentence and your altered version below. Then tell us: 🔎 What changed in the story without ever being directly said? Extra trickster points if someone in the comments finds an interpretation you never intended. Language leaves fingerprints. Let’s see who catches them. 🃏
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I have never loved a man the way that I love you. I have never loved a man. The way that I love you…
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@Miss Lady phew!
Tap-In Tuesdays-Micro Offerings
Today centers contact around… Motivation When life has dealt a blow, what drives you to keep pushing forward ? A small trace. A mark left without explanation. What you offer can be brief. A line. An image. An acknowledgment. Leave it where attention happened to land. Here's my offering: When life takes a shift , I give myself grace. Allow myself to feels those emotions but I try not to wallow or let those emotions consume me. Once I've processed, then I ask myself, what am I trying accomplish? What's my goal ? Focusing on the end result and doing whatever it takes to achieve that goal. Reminding myself that the things that are worth it are not that easy to obtain, but once you achieve it, you appreciate it that much more when you know you've done the work.
Tap-In Tuesdays-Micro Offerings
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I’m on the down shift. Idle loud. Ready to go from 4th to 5th gear, but the speed through this area is limiting me from shifting upward. Speed trap is incognito. Law enforcement trying to be inconspicuous. But I see them. So I bide my time—coasting. Until the 4 lane hwy appears—awaiting the ideal shift into my breakthrough.
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@Naomie Thomas 😊😊😊
Free Flow Friday
(Activity) Open Expression (Exercise) Create freely in response to the week. Any form. Any length. Any Topic. You Choose. Follow Momentum.  Here’s My Offering (Example): It pays dividends to be well prepared. To have contingency plans in case plan A doesn’t work out. Because if you’re faith believer, you know that God laughs at our plans. His Will will be done regardless. So all you can hope for is that your Will and his are of one accord. Because occurrences in life cannot be predicted. Lord knows I wasn’t expecting to lose my job, my home, and my furnishings to a Flood within a year’s time. Our thoughts are not his thoughts So I grip for the ride of my life. Hoping I can survive the hills and valleys. Because this is one adventure that was not on my bingo card. Now you Follow The Flow.
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Ericka Floyd
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B’klyn NY born. Began writing poetry regularly after pandemic. Appears in multiple anthologies and 1recent publication. Mbr of Tesoro, A.R.T. & AAWA.

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