“The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk,
mad to be saved…
the ones who never yawn
or say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles
exploding like spiders across the stars.”
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Stop apologizing for your weirdness, your crazy dreams, your fire-filled heart.
Burn, burn, burn.
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Kate Bartolotta is the strongest girl in the world. She is the love child of a pirate and a roller derby queen. She hails from the second star to the right. She doesn't know how to behave with all the apples and ibexes. She doesn't suffer from her eight million freckles, she loves them! She drinks her lemonade right from the jug. Like a rolling stone, Kate gathers no moss. Kate loves kale, being barefoot, Dr. Seuss, singing too loudly, gallivanting, palindromes, blackberries, Elvis Presley, magic tricks and (of course) elephants. She has been charged with (and found guilty of) overusing the exclamation point! When she's not writing, you can find her practicing yoga, running in the woods, playing with her kids, devouring a book, planting dandelions, changing the world and doing her dishes. Kate does not play the accordion. She is on her way to becoming a fabulous massage therapist, a mediocre writer and a compassionate friend to all. This year Kate aspires to finally give up on learning to knit and will instead spend that time writing for elephant journal.
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Happy Birthday Jack! Thank you for this. One of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite writers of all time. The only people for me are the mad ones too. I appreciate the madness in all of us, and wish for us all to burn brightly and loudly, unapologetically. To live fiercly, to question, to explore, to make contact, inpact. To love. To be great and to just be. We are all writers and lovers and creators. Keep on keeping on. Keep burning, keep exploding in the sky. Keep writing.
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