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Learning To Walk Again
@learningtowalkagain.life
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An interactive book project collection of short stories and poems.
Come check it out! https://learningtowalkagain.life/
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I just watched the latest review of my project after putting it off (I usually get a little nervous after a review gets done!) One point brought up was the time put in to hand draw the lettering and yes, each poem heading was drawn with numerous iterations like these to get to the final design.
December 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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This is an early concept I used for the poem "Interare." The idea was to surround the word "are" so that it was inside the confines of the second part of the word. I was afraid the bottom part would read "IareR.
learningtowalkagain.life/ShortPoems/ #PoemHeadings #InteractiveBook #HandLettering
An early attempt at letting the word "inter-are."
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A rough sketch of a title for my poem. The idea was to connect all the characters together so that it would go with the theme of moving up in age. I ended up dropping this concept so I could go with big chunkier type that matched the other titles in my work.

#BookSky #InteractiveBook #HandLettering
The letters "12 to 13" almost all connected together to show the theme of going from one age to the next.
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I've been working on heading graphics for my introduction blurb page for over a year. I didn't expect it to take so long but for some reason the graphic with positive type on the top, negative see through type on bottom messed with my mind a little bit!
#BookSky #InteractiveBook #HandLettering
A very rough first draft which has horrible letter spacing. I knew I had to through something together very quickly so I could get the site online as soon as possible. The second draft which became much more interesting. The drip of the "g" is now matched by the "L" pooling together. Looks like I didn't quite plan the spacing for the of letters on "again" too well at the point where the pool of ink was getting narrower. The decender of the "g" made into the pool is so large that it almost doesn't read as a "g" at all. I kept it like that for over a year and a half. The basic idea of what I was going after was put in place though. This hand pencil drawing got the letter spacing pretty good. This was likely one of the first computer renderings where I was trying to imitate the look of black ink which was later extensively used in the first section of the site; the first five pages or so that have a gold look to them.
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I've always thought of black as #masculine. When making a brief mention of it in a poem someone asked about it. He pointed out that blue was the social construct #BoyColor. This made me realize that the story would be even more effective if it showed these two colors in conjunction. #BlackPoem
August 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I've been working hard on #PoemHeadings for each of my #poems. Today I've basically drew the last one!

This poem was about a the #flood of #students that pour down the hill after school lets out. The same year I wrote it I saw the above poster. My version had #Alliteration with the letters "Spi."
August 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I love these ads I found on eBay that market sweats primarily by how stylish they are. "Dressed To Kill" and "Our Image Follows Us Everywhere."

I wonder why it took companies so long to sell them from this perspective? Prior eras just touted their sports performance advantages as far as I can tell.
A gallery of vintage magazine advertisements. They are for Russell Athletic, Tultex and Thom McAN. Nice mix of eye popping colors mixed with neutral blues and grays.
July 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I've been working on a story about when I needed help getting gum out of my hair. The poem took a couple days to come together but I made the page in about a day. That surprised me a little, but I guess at this point when I have many of the basic elements ready to go things move fast!
A website layout I made for a poem about unsung heroes. My hero was someone who helped me out of a difficult predicament. I describe how grateful I am to people like this who do not always get attention for the good work they do.
June 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I wrote this reply to a video which compared how AI summarized a poem to how an English teacher would. For a while now I've had this idea that the struggle I put into a poem is a way that I honor the person I am writing about. It just seems that relying on AI makes the sentiment less meaningful.
June 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I go to the field on weekends to shoot hoops. This week there were some nice cloud formations off in the background. I didn't really notice them until reviewing the video. Sometimes soccer balls fly off on to my court. Other days soccer players will play basketball with me. #EcksteinMiddleSchool 🦅
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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A nice view of the shadows I see when stopping by school on sunny mornings. There are usually other teams playing on the field while the basketball courts are open for practice.
The late morning sun casting shadows by the gym at #EcksteinMiddleSchool. #Seattle #PublicSchools #Sunrise #BeautifulWeather #EcksteinGym #Shadows #CoolColors #GreenGrass
April 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I went to shoot hoops during the nice weather in Seattle this week. It is now spring break so the only people there are the construction workers putting in new windows.

I also ran some track and found an abandoned soccer ball to try a few shots. I'm thankful to get in real exercise this week.
Basketball court by #EcksteinMiddleSchool. New windows are being installed this week along a new portable building.
April 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A poem that looks into the teachings of the #Inter-Being. From the writings of #ThichNhatHanh it helped me understand emptiness in a way I could easily wrap my mind around.

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#Poem #PoemCommunity #WhoYouAre #Inter-Are #Buddhism #Childhood #Illusion #TreeRings
Looking into whether the you as a child is the same person you are today.
January 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A memory from our morning reading session class in the #6thGrade.

#ThePageTurns #EcksteinMiddleSchool #YouthReading #ExploringNewBooks #PlantingSeeds #PoetryCommunity #IdealSettingsForReading #ReflectSolveCreateGrowThink #Poem #Poetry #ComingOfAge #Memories
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A creative banner on Eckstein Middle School's wall which spells out a kind of acronym for "learn." It spells out learn by taking one letter from the words "Reflect," "Solve," "Create," "Grow," and "Think."
December 30, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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As this crossing of our paths was not in grade-school’s teach
or while finding our grownup selves in the study of high
it was in the middle while our faces spouted hairs like a peach
our names even had the same #SoulEnergy – #Kip and #Kai

#MaleSign for #Poem in style of #AndJusticeForAll
#BlackPoem
December 29, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Intro to #BlackPoem

When all color is not there
we just don't pay enough mind to this phenomenal occurrence.
It has an absence of hue a characteristic so rare
these traits had no other coloration transference.

(Stanza 1/3)

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcksteinMiddleSchool #Kai
December 29, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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A #poem stylized to be like the #RideTheLightning album cover as the subject would often wear #Metallica, #Megadeth and #GrungeBandShirts.

I really enjoyed drawing type in three dimensions, never had the chance to do that before. learningtowalkagain.life/Kai/ 🐦‍⬛ #BlackPoem #PoetryCommunity
A poem about a boy in black. Its look styled after Metallica's Ride The Lightning album cover with 3D text and lightning.
December 28, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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This year I wrote a five page #BlackPoem. (learningtowalkagain.life/Black/) While doing so discovered the wonderful word #Adumbrate. Noticed it could be used as a noun and a verb and an adjective so I had to use it again on a later page! 🐈‍⬛ #Black
#Kai #EcksteinMiddleSchool #PoetryCommunity #Poetry
Image of black coffee and paint spilled on a page with a poem about black in the middle. The poem talks about corvine which is the color of the plumage of a crow or a raven. Other new favorite words amalgamate. Another black poem which uses the term adumbrative in a adjective form this time instead of as a verb. Other new words introduced scintillate and obversely.
December 28, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Cherished memory from middle school.
Taken from page two of my black poem!
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#Kai #EcksteinMiddleSchool #Black #BlackPoem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Basketball #Bros #Brothers #Druthers
Basketball poem inside of a basketball.
December 26, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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My latest body of work that focuses on my growing up years. I hadn't realized how much content was there on this subject until I approached this year's Poetry Month!

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#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #MiddleSchoolPoems #EcksteinMiddleSchool #Drugery #Joy #Values
Decomposing food and a messy napkin. Napkin has a poem describing my needing to dig through a dumpster to find a retainer. A short poem on a napkin that tells a story about a teacher who placed value of being with his students over being with his colleagues.
December 26, 2024 at 7:49 PM