Thomas W. P. Slatin

American Writer, Photographer, and Website Designer. Former career Fire and EMS Lieutenant. She/Her/Hers. Lesbian.

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  • Writing
    • Diary
    • Letter Archive
    • Poetry
    • Writing Prompt Images
  • Photography
    • Found Film
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    • Found Photographs
    • Video
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    • Audio Recordings
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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Isolation

    November 10, 2022 / 2 Comments

    I grew up in a world that didn’t understand me, and in some ways, it still doesn’t. Throughout my childhood, I was always reading, and always looking for answers in the books I loved so much. It seems that I was isolated to the point that I might as well have lived in the mouth of a whale with my notebooks and a candle. Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote On Greater Understanding

    August 6, 2022 / 2 Comments

    This morning, I ran to the water, took all my clothes off, stood at the waters edge and gazed awhile in the solace of silence. I took a deep breath, still burdened with the memories of living in a constant state of reckless abandon. A stick floating down the river reminded me of my own life, where everyone warned me that if I left, life would beat me down. The stick, such as my life will inevitably get bashed among the rocks, experiencing highs and lows, might eventually be rewarded by one day finding the ocean. Everyone stayed while I went away. I was pushed to my breaking point many…

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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Being A Free Spirit

    July 12, 2022 / 1 Comment

    I have always had an obvious aversion to following the well-beaten path. I am a free spirit, a roadless soul with no intentions of ever stopping or even slowing down, through space and time, with sky above and earth below; I am a creation of now. Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote On Writing A Novel

    June 27, 2022 / No Comments

    “Although I have considered writing a novel, my wheelhouse is not in fiction, and even it it were, my writing would center around black forests and wolves, with characters all in half-costume, half-awake, and half gone to seed. When I was younger, I would write in riddles and rhymes, whereas in recent years, I have started writing with old words which are so obscure that people falsely assume that they are simply made-up words, in the trademark great reverent style that is uniquely mine.” Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote On Dreams

    June 26, 2022 / No Comments

    “When I was a little girl, I listed and wrote down my dreams. People laughed at me and said I’d never accomplish any of them. Now that I’ve accomplished every single one, I’m the one who now has the right to laugh.” Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Humility

    May 18, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Every person is a gift, and as such are so much more than their jobs, their possessions, or bloated bank accounts. It seems the more we take, the less we become; the fortune of one can only equate with less for some. Love, the greatest thing in life, and are the feelings of the heart. Thomas Slatin, Belong

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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Intelligence

    April 9, 2022 / 1 Comment

    The most troublesome part about my 178 IQ is the almost daily reminder that not everyone has been gifted with such a high IQ. Watching people fail to learn from their mistakes, notwithstanding that these same people often seek my help and advice, yet fail to apply that advice. Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Her Work As A Firefighter

    February 3, 2022 / 2 Comments

    Whenever I went to work as a firefighter, I promised my family that no matter what happened at work, I would come home safely after my shift. Also, if the unthinkable happened and I didn’t survive, I wanted to be remembered not for the way in which I died, but instead, how I lived. Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Ignorance

    January 30, 2022 / 4 Comments

    The cancer of my intellect is the constant visceral feeling that I am mostly surrounded by idiots in popular parlance that shuns genius, and celebrates ignorance. Thomas Slatin

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    Thomas Slatin Quote About Parental Expectations

    December 22, 2021 / 8 Comments

    One day I was daddy’s little angel, the next day I became what he never wanted me to be. Thomas Slatin

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Thomas W.P. Slatin
American Writer, Photographer, and Website Designer. Former career Fire and EMS Lieutenant. She/Her/Hers. Lesbian.

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