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All the Feels: Playlist
I've been working on this one for a while now but got into the groove of adding songs to it last week. It was originally called "Broken" after the first song and because the music centered around that theme a bit. I'm not broken though; I just have feelings. It's a good soundtrack for me…
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” – Khalil Gibran
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Poetic Prose
I’m listening to a song that I listened to a million years ago. A song I felt so deeply. Its rhythms were the beat of my heart. Or so I thought. It touches some distant memory but it feels like nothing. A touch of nothing like a touch from me. It was nothing. It’s gone. It never…
April Fool
Last year around this time, I created a playlist I called April Fool. It was building off the feelings I had in the midst of making foolish decisions, knowing it and offering myself up to the abyss of reckless decisions. I chose songs based on the feel of them, wanting them to enhance the sensation…
The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections. – Tahereh Mafi
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Love of Letter Writing
I have had a long time love for letter writing. I've been lucky enough to have written and received many letters despite the fact that many people reply to my interest in letter writing by informing me that the art of letter writing is dead. Letter writing is not dead, merely endangered. It reminds of this…
