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Brief sentences for irrelevant people

I don't have any other way to describe this post. These are sentences I'm sad I didn't write myself. I find them so beautiful. I'm in love with these sentences. All of them are from books I read at least two years

Opposites

I'll slowly reshare my old blog posts here in a sequence that makes sense to me. This is a poem I wrote in 2023. I avoided rereading it since then. I somehow assumed I'd cringe if I reread it. But I'm not cringing. It&

Learning Religion

Two comments on this piece: 1. Writing about difficult topics is daunting and can be self-indulgent, or just sickly dwelling. So the only tasteful approach to these dark and sad areas is humor. HOWEVER, this piece is about my grandmother. I can't be my humorous self when I&

Turn me to art.....

Even papers age and get wrinkles too. This week my 2025 journal arrived (a month late! Apparently even time can get delayed in customs). I'm already emotional about all that I will fill her with. All the feelings that made a home in my chest, all the secrets

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