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Saturday, October 17, 2026
To feel the possibility that we could if we wanted to
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To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made fo...
Monday, August 31, 2026
Sometimes you just need nothing
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She looked the way I'd always imagined women were supposed to look. At peace. Relaxed. A part of nature, like a stone or a stream. The L...
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Housekeeping
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I'm listing here some of the blogs I have previously sidebarred but that appear to be no longer active. Because I don't want to comp...
Thursday, July 23, 2026
As if it was something slightly separate from yourself
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He realises that the things that are so important to him — the things that happened, and that he saw there, the things that left him feeling...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
A sort of equipoise of contradictions
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And so, a year and change later, on a particularly damp night in May, I was slumped on the the living room couch, where I typically landed w...
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Everything I have ever experienced is made crystalline
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On days of heavy snowfall, I used to extend my coat sleeve to watch the flakes settle on the fluff on its dark fabric and dissolve. It make ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
A density of sentences
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Anyway, routine returns. Every day I read one book of poetry and one novel to be recharged by a density of sentences. I stretch and strength...
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