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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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Birdy by Suzie Howell

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It’s me. Cringe tumblr girl. Love of your life

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November 22nd-

The first snow has taken Coddington Rd and Honeypine—a glorious snow at that.

Great spruce boughs hold white pillows, and the old bus turned into a home keeps its maker warm with its simple iron stove. At Coddington, wood is taken from its summer shed and wheelbarrowed to the side porch, where Mama Kitty sleeps in her winter box of old coats and blankets. The wood is then fed to our own great iron sun, and the house sits warm.

I think of the white pine saplings at the back of the property and their new coat of white. My memory is stirred to years past of taking Ella there. A feeling just beyond words rises at the sound of the Christmas music. It is a safe and open feeling; it exists before her, before the dreams that now consume me.

A very cherished time of my life, I am only now beginning to understand just how prized and true it was. A child of the woods I was, filled with youthful wonder and taught to follow that wonder as far as it might lead me. A snow-covered land, a fire in the backwoods, fresh tracks, strangers, memories—I have been created to see and admire things like these with great joy and awe.

Later in life, I have come to try my best at documenting them, and so now, when the snow comes, so does this feeling just beyond the proper words. I only need to soften at its presence, and it will wrap me for a time in its warmth.

The show in Los Angeles is tomorrow, and then I return home. Despite all of my anxieties, all is well, and all I need is here—if only I may see it.

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They were very happy, even after they discovered that they couldn’t live on love alone. John did not find Meg’s beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee-pot; nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, “Shall I send home veal or mutton for dinner, darling?” The little house ceased to be a glorified bower, but it became a home, and the young couple soon felt that it was a change for the better.

Little Women, "Domestic Experiences", Louisa May Alcott

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19th & 20th century tiaras

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GAME OF THRONES, BEHIND THE SCENES Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy and Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark

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Abbott Elementary S04E06 The Deli

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PEDRO PASCAL as MARCUS ACACIUS  GLADIATOR II  (2024) dir. Ridley Scott

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"My name is PEDRO PASCAL. I play Acacius in Gladiator II: Electric Boogaloo"

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I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell! BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise