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This is the great and terrifying truth about the creative life: Anything we make — all this longing for beauty and meaning, all these reckonings and raptures, these most passionate and personal fragments of being — is just a tiny seed compacting everything we are, blown into the wind that is the world.

Maria Popova, from “Rebecca Solnit on Writing, Gardening, and the Life of the Mind,” The Marginalian (24 June 2022)

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There are usually two types of merchants.

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by Johnny Renquist | Haarkon | Raewyn Pope | Christopher Perez  

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i’m not “lazy” i’m just a fragile victorian maiden. i can only handle 1-2 mildly taxing activities a day before i have to put myself down for a nap until dinner

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Pont-Aven, France (by Irma-48)

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“First of all” I say indignantly, with absolutely no idea where i’m going with this

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honestly some of y’all want a significant other so badly and can’t understand why you can’t find one, but have no sense of boundaries or healthy expectations of what a relationship is like. in a committed long-term partnership you get left on read, you wait for texts back, and you can forget about each other when you’re busy. sometimes you fall asleep without saying goodnight and sometimes you’re too caught up to text each other before 6pm. that’s how it is. thinking that you can’t be deeply, beautifully in love and still wait more than “1.75 hours” for a text back is such an unhealthy and unreasonable expectation of what love is, and you shouldn’t be in a relationship if you can’t allow the other person to exist on their own apart from you. if you’re projecting your anxieties and insecurities onto a partner who doesn’t even exist yet, then you aren’t ready for one.

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I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

C.S. Lewis (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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every pose is a seductive one when you’re holding a sword

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Source: @tart_chan on Twitter

http://twitter.com/tart_chan/status/1257241725564674054

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December

December 2019!  The last month of the decade.  I feel like most people think December is dark and gloomy and dreary, but this close out to the 2010s has actually been so good to me.  This December has brought me: 

-pretty good work/life balance.  I’m not slammed, and I’m not so slow at work as to feel useless

-time at home with the fam and my puppy!!!

-a...new boyfriend? :o

-lots of close fellowship time with friends :) 

-backstage shenanigans at Wicked

-cookies & cocoa 

-exploration of new spaces and restaurants in NY

-lots of frozen & frozen 2!!! 

-the planning of a trip to toronto with one of my bffs i’m insanely excited for where we get to see our faves

-speaking of faves....DM convos with one ms. caissie levy :) 

So thank you, December.  May January and 2020 be just as bright 

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Frozen 2 ( 2019 ) dir. Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee

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Frozen II (2019) dir. Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck

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