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47: Does my level of effort match the level of my desire?
Sometimes, I wonder if I’m confusing motion with progress. Like yes, I’m moving, but am I moving in the most effective way?
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46: Fondre
My lover and I have moved in together, into a house just three minutes from the High Street. It’s a beautiful house, I must mention. The doors are…
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45: Desire is embarrassing
I am embarrassed by my desire
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44: You can grieve the things you never had
At midnight on the 19th of February, I dig a grave, lower the casket, and cover it with earth–but there is no body.
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43: On Minimalism and Subtle Beauty
I think about this often: how easy it is to mistake loudness for significance. How we sometimes believe that for something to matter, it must be…
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42: I’m no longer absorbing emotions that are not mine
On Twitter, deliberately offensive jokes and incendiary content
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41: On Christmas Day, we go to our Governor’s house to party.
In December, there was no Christmas Cantata. Some people said it held, but there were just not many people there. Others said it didn’t hold. We weren’t…
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