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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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My liver’s perfect. My kidneys are divine. My glucose is… a little dramatic. We’re waiting on more tests. And I’m being very brave about it.
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The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc.
Oh and get the money out of politics
artist of the week: claude monet
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GONNA VENT HERE.
I have lived through Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Oboma, & Joe Biden.
In my lifetime have I never seen or heard of a President being scrutinized over every word he speaks, humiliated by the public to the point of wanting to hurt someone, slandered, ridiculed, …
My Saturday PSA:
Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore.
Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office.
Stop talking about Joe Biden.
Start talking about the Convicted Felon, Donald Trump.
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Having a weird reading funk in the new year.. after going from Deborah Levy (always in tune to her books) to Jon Fosse (bit of a toil but compelling) to Bolaño (2666! Finished in two weeks!) to now starting and dropping novels by Katie Kitamura, Ben Lerner, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Pynchon… I am picking up Intermezzo and hoping for the best. Anybody else go through this? How do you read your way out?
Reading Darran Anderson’s Inventory and then Intermezzo got me out of a reading funk I found myself in in early December! I’d been focusing so much on applying to do a PhD that my brain felt really scattered when it came to reading for myself. Both of those books just really pulled me in and helped me refind my footing with reading.
Good to hear about intermezzo! Will look for Inventory too. Im never really sure why my reading patterns fluctuate like this.
bad cree by jessica johns is quick, interesting, and beautifully written — helped me out of a slump a few months back
Thank you for the recommendation! Will seek this out. Sometimes I don’t understand what I’m looking for. Can be holding a book in my hand I clearly know is good but for whatever reason it’s not clicking.
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For Vogue Mexico, I interviewed eight female chefs in Mexico City who are bringing a vibrant and refreshing energy to the city’s rapidly transforming dining scene!
Still not over the photos that Karla Lisker took!
meanwhile at an open air market in the south of france
Sugar doughnuts–simple, a classic, never not delicious.
