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Books, Causes, Passion Projects, and All Things Inspiring
Welcome to the Iridescent Inkwell website! Please expect regular inspiration in the form of art, poetry, music, activism, and more.
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Iridescent Inkwell is the blog of of Courtney Diles, also known as Coco Henderson, and this website offers book editing and proposal writing services.
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Short Review of The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science and Poetry
I like to read poetry in the mornings. I always like poetry, but it's such a great way to start the day - bearing witness to writers...
Courtney Diles
Feb 261 min read
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The Poetry of Black Roses
For Black History Month, I want to talk about "Black Roses" by Harold Green III. A lot of poetry overlaps with advocacy work – lifting...
Courtney Diles
Feb 233 min read
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Indiana's Giant Ghost Trees
If I have a "Roman Empire," something constantly and recurrently on my mind, it’s the Trail Companion produced by Indiana Humanities,...
Courtney Diles
Jan 214 min read
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The Wonder and Poetry of the Sandhill Cranes
The evening before the first snow back in November, I was in one of the gardens cutting corn straw for an outdoor cat enclosure when I...
Courtney Diles
Jan 162 min read
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Bonker's Kitty House: Our Outdoor Cat Enclosure
I originally drafted this post in November. We have a wild porch kitty. We’ve been calling her a porch cat because we don’t have a barn....
Courtney Diles
Jan 112 min read
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Book Review: Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries: A Novel by Heather Fawcett
This book was in equal turns cozy and delightfully horrifying. It has a gradual ascent into the fantastical that is something I aspire to...
Courtney Diles
Aug 28, 20241 min read
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Mini-Post: Moths and Glass
Look at this eight-spotted forester moth I caught sleepin' on our kitchen windowsill! It probably just hatched. The second yearly brood...
Courtney Diles
Aug 4, 20241 min read
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Nourish Your Soul
This is one of my favorite artworks I've freehanded so far. It's just the corner of a mandala, transitioning into vines where I started...
Courtney Diles
Jul 31, 20241 min read
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Find Your Locus of Control
Find where your actual control is. Find out how that overlaps with your responsibilities, needs, and wants. It seemed horrific, at first,...
Courtney Diles
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Today's Inspiration: The Art of Jane Small
Enjoy this art with me. I stumbled upon this artist called Jane Small. Look at these fields of yellow flowers. That's what Indiana looked...
Courtney Diles
Jul 24, 20241 min read
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Things We Control on a Healing Journey
As the movie Inside Out 2 recently taught us, anxiety is an emotion best directed at the things we actually have control over. This has...
Courtney Diles
Jul 16, 20243 min read
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I'm glad we exist.
I love this little comic. The pastels are gentle like the breeze. The dusky purple adds a somber edge. The big anime eyes are there to...
Courtney Diles
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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The Wonder and Comfort of the Cozy Fantasy Genre
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. Let’s talk about cozy fantasy. I am...
Courtney Diles
Dec 4, 20234 min read
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Top Three Fantasy Books I Read in 2023
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. I’m on track to read 200 books in...
Courtney Diles
Nov 24, 20232 min read
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The Oxford Comma (Serial Comma): Often Necessary for Clarity
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. “We invited the strippers, Stalin...
Courtney Diles
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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"Your Story Has A Nice Flow": What Does It Mean?
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. Have you ever been given this...
Courtney Diles
Nov 14, 20234 min read
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Genre Specialty Spotlight: Manga and Comic Books
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. Now that I have moved from...
Courtney Diles
Nov 3, 20232 min read
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Genre Specialty Spotlight: Paranormal Romance
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. Now that I have moved from...
Courtney Diles
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Genre Specialty Spotlight: Young Adult Fantasy Novels
Note: This blog post is repurposed from my former website, Courtney Diles Writing & Editing Services. Now that Courtney Diles Writing &...
Courtney Diles
Oct 23, 20235 min read
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