What’s Something Outside Of Your Comfort Zone You Wish To Try This Week?

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Some weeks, I stay within my comfort zone, because routine is all I can manage — and that’s okay.

Yet other weeks, motivated by curiosity for novelty, I take that step outside of my comfort zone, so that I can continue to learn and adapt to all the change around me.

Sometimes, that looks like practicing rhyming and rhythm until it becomes more natural to me.

Sometimes, that looks like trying new food, or a new recipe.

Sometimes, that’s trying a whole new crochet project.

What about you?

Where are you falling this week? Are you sticking to routine just to get through the days? Or are you curious to try something (no matter how small) outside of your usual this week?

This will be this week’s shortform theme, but if you have more to say about it, feel free to transform it into an essay! Or a poem! TBIN’s queue is open for your thoughts. ❤

Until next week,

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🍜 Piping Hot New(dle) Pieces of the Week

Challenge: *highlight* the ones you bookmarked/ read and make sure everyone gets highlighted at least once! ❤

🧠🍜 [1] More by Abbey Streett ‘I wanted more time’

🧠🍜 [2] Bath Water by Wolfie Bain ‘we drove to New York in a convertible our asses a tea party inches above the highway and how fast there went twinkling Baltimore there came maze of maze D.C.,’

🧠🍜 [3] Before we get older by Olivia Th ‘Let’s jump from the parachutes, And as the birds go across the sky Let’s fly baby, let’s fly.’

🧠🍜 [4] I Don’t Plan Like I Used To by Dennett ‘I don’t plan like I used to — no goals or trite affirmations to make something happen that shouldn’t or won’t because it’s not supposed to no matter what I want.’

🧠🍜 [5] Discrete Inspiration by Mihai Brinas ‘You used to sneak close and would silently knock at the door of my comprehension we used to communicate easily’

🧠🍜 [6] Well Played by Indubala Kachhawa ‘The puzzle of life is strange Who knows who created this maze all mortals are enchanted by! They play to win and love to play’

🧠🍜 [7] Short Form Poetry: The Big What If by Damilola Abiola ‘What if it goes wrong? And all your plans go to the dogs, What if it goes wrong? And whatever freedom you seek is taken away, What if it goes wrong?’

🧠🍜 [8] The Mystery Cats by Luke DeLalio ‘There are mysteries to me Cats — large, smell-less, unpurring and wary Could be sneaking around Stevie Wonder’s house, making things disappear’

🧠🍜 [9] I am Stronger than My Anxiety by Sai Kiran Ramarapu ‘Have you ever known the feeling of sinking into a black hole? where time stops running, and the force of gravity so intense that, it pulls you and wears you down and out.’

🧠🍜 [10] When the Big Bold Thing Doesn’t Feel Like a Big Bold Thing by Evan Wildstein ‘Quitting the job. Ending the relationship. Standing up to your pushy classmate. Sometimes these are the “right things” to do, absolutely. But oftentimes they feel like the most difficult things, too.’

🧠🍜 [11] Smiling Downwards by Nada Chehade ‘Sometimes you need to appear whole to survive, but I am quickly learning that you can’t keep up the facade for too long — you can hide it, mask it, deceive the outside world, but what happens when it all falls down?’

🧠🍜 [12] Screw 100% by Dennett ‘Most decisions in life aren’t permanent. You can change your mind. Perhaps, you lost a little ground by going in the wrong direction but you learned by going there.’

🧠🍜 [13] Not Another Therapist! by Ravyne Hawke ‘I’ve been plagued with mental health issues for the majority of my life, spending countless years in in-patient and out-patient treatment, playing medication roulette and yes, I have gone through way too many therapists to count.’

🧠🍜 [14] Scrapping Insta-Feed by Rachella Angel Page ‘It was a beautiful feed- covered in positive sayings, sunsets and my dog and the day I shaved my head.’

🧠🍜 [15] Tongue Searing Spice Sensations for Chilli-fiends: A Tanka by B.R. Shenoy ‘Fiery Thai cuisine Tongue lips tingling sensation’

🧠🍜 [16] Stale by Ravyne Hawke ‘{ A tiny piece! Sneak peek: 🍺🍻 } ‘

🧠🍜 [17] Grounded by Samah Fadil ‘My sap leaks from beneath The bark exposes itself, wild Untamed nature Heaping desires’

🧠🍜 [18] Chasing The Rainbow by The Positive Journal ‘The more you chase the rainbow the further away it feels.’

🧠🍜 [19] I Have A Full Sleeve Tattoo on My Arm But You Can’t See it by Hogan Torah ‘I’ve made many poor decisions in my life. Some of them have had long term repercussions like getting married or trying heroin. Other decisions became amusing anecdotes. Like my decision to get my first tattoo.’

🧠🍜 [20] Spindles & K-Complexes by Lola Sense ‘When I fall asleep, I start Dreaming right away. There is no science to explain it Unless you’re less than five.’

🧠🍜 [21] September by Lubna Yusuf ‘A Cinquain poem typically consists of five lines, using the syllable structure of 2–4–6–8–2 .’

🧠🍜 [22] Dinner for Champions by Penelope Mayfield ‘Breakfast is my favorite meal. If I had to pick just one meal to have for the rest of my life, breakfast would be it — morning, noon, and night! Just writing this poem has me second-guessing my dinner choice for the evening.’

🧠🍜 [23] Your Stories, Now Mine by Ravyne Hawke ‘my deep imagination transports me — I become characters in all your stories and for a time, I forget my own loneliness’

🧠🍜 [24] Thor by Michael Hollifield ‘The story of Thor Different than the movies Comics are better’

🧠🍜 [25] My Muse is a Goddess by Mark Tulin ‘My poetess visits daily, often coming to me in dreams, in the middle of the night when I can’t fall asleep, or when I drive past towns with peace signs and good omens’

🧠🍜 [26] Blessing by Mihai Brinas ‘The words are chained in a poem with no title filled with anger and sweat’

🔊 Voices to Amplify

We don’t have to leave it to the algorithm to suggest our favourite pieces! Here are some of my archived faves!

Thank you to Maya L, M.A., Roz Warren, Thalia Dunn, Rachella Angel Page, Zahra Ali for writing these pieces! ❤

🧠🍜 Thank you to the Noodle Team!

challenge: pick 3 writers you haven’t met yet and get acquainted with their pieces!

New writers: Samah Fadil | Mittu Ravi | Lubna Yusuf | Deeksha Agrawal | Julladonna Park | Gauri Sirur | Ann Syson | Ellie Jacobson | Hogan Torah | Q U I N T E S S A

Misty Rae | Ravyne Hawke | Sai Kiran Ramarapu | Lola Sense | Glad Doggett | Dominick Bernard Francois | Colm Clark | Damilola Abiola | Penelope Mayfield | Pierce McIntyre | Abbey Streett | Kathy Jacobs | Mihai Brinas | Margie Willis | Jeanne-Erin | Troy B. Jordan | Zsófia Sáfár | Hal H. Harris | Greg Proffit | Rebecca Herz | Winston | Natasha Kurien | K S Fielding | Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles | Cori Holmes | Jee Young Park | Caroline de Braganza | Kate Lynch | Assumpta Nalubowa | Lisa Gerard Braun | Nes Laidler | Reanna Szeszol | The Positive Journal | Medomfo Owusu | Sh*t Happens — Lost Girl Travel | Obinna Uruakpa | Sean Peck | Susan Alison | Kevin Alexander | Sharing Randomly | Brenda Covarrubias | Jimmy Misner Jr. | Stevie Wright | Disha Choksi | Roselyn Violet | Dazzling Shene | Jennifer Leth | John Gobins | Karen Falcon | America Zed | CARMEN F MICSA | Karen Schwartz | MIGHTY MISCELLANY | Ajah Hales | Gisel La Fleur | Roselyn Violet | Marcus Chan | Jennifer Dunne | Cameron Sidhe | Earl Grey Sea | Rakshita Upadhyay | O.M. Fernandes | Beth Nintzel | Barbara Dalton | George Cloake | Nhi Diep | Tarun Gupta | HerPrivateLife | Sohrab Khandelwal | Nerissa Talique | Gracia Kleijnen | Betsy Denson | KSHernandez | Luke DeLalio | Rachella Angel Page | Teressa P. | VV Valentine | Bhavya Mehta | Suntonu Bhadra | Noah Levy | Suzy Hazelwood | Ashlea Morgan | LS | Jessie Waddell | Dave Logan | Candy Marie | Himanshi B | Zihan | Elle How | K.S. | Sherry McGuinn | Diana Dee | Rambling Rose | Doran Lamb | Avi Kotzer | A.M. Radulescu | Laurie Perez | Paul Mansfield | B.R. Shenoy | Nada Chehade| Coco Joan | Bingz Huang | Shreya Badonia | Kimberly Carter | Las siete y más | Warren Brown | Trista Signe Ainswort | Kyomi O’Connor | Kay Bee | MaggieLaFae | Alex Godley | Haider Jamal | Josie Elbiry | Anthony Jackson | Hannah M. Moore | Michael Hollifield | Yana Bostongirl | TC Hails | Orla Kenny | Samedra Carter | Tatum Hamernik | Thalia Dunn | Nia Simone McLeod | Josie Elbiry | Keegan Roembke | Noorain Hassan, BMS | Humaira Iqbal | Zachary Burg | Bob Pepe | Will Hull | Jason | Courtenay S. Gray | Sahil Patel | Meenal Gupta | Amy Lee Kite | Evan Wildstein | Hilda Carroll | Chloe Hill | Paola Perez | Matt Ray | Wolfie Bain | Dena Ogden | Tasneem Kagalwalla | Yan Huang | Tree Langdon | Stuart Englander | Jennifer McDougall | Aaron Kemp | Rachel Ramkaran (she/her) | LS | Lori Welch Brown | Nicole Jiang | Crystalclearcandace | Em Unravelling | Jupiter Grant | Elle Beau ❇︎ | Suman Sandhu | Adam Deitsch | Mia Z. Edwards | David Majister | JF | Zach Neuman | Chris Mooney-Singh | Toya Qualls-Barnette | Karen Lappa Haas | Alan Henley | Michelle Bonfils | Zach Klebaner | Anna | Deepshikha Bhagat | Carlos Garbiras | Katrina Bos | Lisa Bolin | Sohaib Roomi | The Dozen | Malik Bellamy | Olivia Th | Shaista Malik | Emily Wilcox | Brajendra | Eva Rotolo | Bhavna Narula | Shannon Hugman | Ryan DeJonghe | Ryan DeJonghe | Dennett | Swagat Choudhury | Vivian | Mark Tulin | Arslan Mirza | Amber Carlson | Urfa | Whatsinanaim | Amy Pierovich, Ed.D. | Carolyn Riker | Tally | Shivangi Patel | Giulia | ScienceDuuude | Rachael Ann Sand | Divina Grey | Sarah Paris | DISHA GARG | Jen Kleinknecht | janny’s heart | Penofgold | Blank Voice | Kele Mogotsi | Jessie London | Indubala Kachhawa | Radhika Ghose | Mil H. | Zeno Faber | Maziar Ghaderi | Julia Appa | Campbell Christensen | Allison Gaines | Lori Lamothe | Tima Loku | Kim McKinney | Baye Amina | Tom Fenske | Johannes Mudi | Kasun Ranasinghe | Just a Slytherin hissing | Dr. Fatima Imam | Ntathu Allen | Somsubhra Banerjee | Veronica Georgieva | Life is Amazing with Books and Writers | Dandy Lioness 🌻 | Mindsmatter | Michael Ranjitsingh | Anjali Samaraweera | Krupesh Raikar | Rusty Alderson | Dr. Preeti Singh | Punch Drunk Cola | Melissa Speed | Ntathu Allen | Denise G | Carolyn Hastings | Tej | Vijini Mallawaarachchi | Amy Marley | Jac Gautreau | Erivaldo Ricardo | Roz Warren | Melissa Bee | Pretheesh Presannan | Daniel A. Teo | Anuradha Wickramarachchi | Niru | Priyanka Mane | Em Hoccane | Synthia S. | Alexandra Forsyth | R. Rangan PhD | Jacobo the First | Connie Song | Fathiyah Zb | Not quite Steve Fisher | Amna Asif | Aimée Gramblin | A Fresh Pot of Coffee | Rebecca Stevens A. | Imad | James G Brennan | Mary Keating | Jay Avery | h.a wadi | Pablo Pereyra | Isaac | jenine bsharah baines | Rochelle Silva | Jade-Ceres Violet D. Munoz | Ruchi Thalwal | Clare Almand | Dana Sanford | Naomi Leilani Acosta | Dr. Jackie Greenwood | Fathiyah Zb |

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