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BREAKING: Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder broke out an acoustic rendition of Bruce Springsteen's "My City of Ruins" at their show last night to support Springsteen in his fight against Donald Trump. This is awesome. America is waking up.
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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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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.
Periodically I see people post a photo of that Dostoevsky quote about not lying to yourself. It's a good quote, and I strongly suspect that pretty much no one who shares it on social media - even this hoity-toity Substack version - is actually reading The Brothers Karamazov.
Well, I am reading The Brothers Karamazov, and to prove it, here's a picture I took of a different good Dostoevsky quote! Take that, attention economy!
