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Joanna Glenn, from her novel titled "All My Mothers," originally published in 2021

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"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

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— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

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— Warsan Shire

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Fausto Zonaro, Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, 1889

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Leo Putz, Vanitas, particolare

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girl help in sleep he sang to me in dreams he came that voice which calls to me and speaks my name and do i dream again for now i find

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San Vicente cape, Joaquín Sorolla

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"Joy is not made to be a crumb." - Mary Oliver

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today’s unironic affirmation that i am raising my cup of chai and drinking to is: i am not inherently more flawed than others. i am just as good as anyone else. thus, no one needs to rescue me, nor do i need to wait till i am more ’worthy’ to live as others do. i need to engage with reality with principle and integrity, and thus build my identity and sense of connection with others ON real actions and relationships, so my sense of self is not based on fantasies and wistful daydreams and unsteady ground. my true self is most and best evident when i am in the moment and not doing anything to sustain and alter it. all of my running around in circles asking ’how do i grow? what do i do?’ has been unnecessary when all i need to truly do is live