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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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Diary Entry: December 10, 2023

My mother turns to me from the stovetop and says she’d like this song at her funeral: You belong among the wildflowers, somewhere you feel free—

And we laugh at the Christmas ornaments I made as a kid, and my sister plays the chords, and we sing in unison, “O little town of Bethlehem”— it’s not ancient; it was just yesterday, and what’s set in stone erodes into the ocean, and the coastline changes—

I used to cling to the lights for dear life; now I’m breathing the cold air. All my friends want to talk about is dying, and I don’t know how they bear it, the end of all things dripping from their lips, licking up doom like honey. Call me green, call me a believer—I believe in us, and I love Christmas. It’s ridiculous. It’s holy. Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy—

It’s human. It’s an answer. And there is blood on my hands, but something in my marrow ricochets through the centuries at the sight of a paper manger: what’s set in stone may erode, but there is no such thing as nihility—

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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

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one thing i truly believe with all my heart is: this world we have built is worth trying to make it kinder

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A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS 1965 — dir. Bill Melendez

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Here in time we make holiday because the eternal birth which God the Father bore and bears unceasingly in eternity is now born in time, in human nature. Saint Augustine says this birth is always happening.

–Meister Eckhart

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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

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SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR as BUFFY SUMMERS Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3.10 Amends

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Louis Icart, Doves (1922)

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Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

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Galavant 2x05 and 2x10 >> Richard + Tad Cooper

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the passing of small things

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sometimes i am so in love with you like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour only ever calling out cuckoo!

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if you see this post you are obligated to reblog and tell me something good that happened to you this year

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i can't believe i have one term left of my degree. i have written so many essays

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wherever you are, woman who told me a joke in the coffee shop that took me a full minute to get, who said it was her first christmas without her husband: i love you, i love you, i love you

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La Métamorphose du Papillon, 1904

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