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self reflection so I can remember myself into the new year

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really enjoy this poem, Sunshine Savings Time by Ayoka Stewart, who was 18 at the time of publication. from my words consume me, an anthology of youth speaks poets (2003)

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also found on my substack

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wake up some morning. out on the balcony. Each breath of wind a bid of love.

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good bones by maggie smith saturday . give it up for good bones by maggie smith saturday

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Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

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from my poem "17 year cicada summer" which you can read on my substack

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I am good. I am loved.

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other lives and dimensions and finally a love poem by bob hicok

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i don’t want to live like this forever, so i’ll have to change

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born. living. will. die. by Camonghne Felix

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Mary Oliver, from “Straight Talk from Fox”, Red Bird

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

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You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality