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8 january 2024
writing this sixth post from nutbelly pizza bar! during ad breaks of the michigan game and in between conversations with mom. i knew i had to write this by monday and was thinking about it during the weekend–i almost started writing yesterday–and completely forgot about it until thirty minutes ago! so i’m distracted but i’m…
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1 january 2024 (!)
a new year! my fifth piece! what a lovely thing that this year begins on a monday. i want to start with a lucille clifton poem: i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old…
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25 december 2023
(today is the 26th but i’m giving myself grace for not writing anything in the past week) another christmas has come and gone! every year feels different now. i don’t think that i have any christmas rituals or traditions that i consistently practice every year aside from watching the charlie brown special. i can think…
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18 december 2023
monday piece #3! this week went by quickly. i didn’t do any cumulative writing throughout the week with this piece in mind although i did do a fair bit of pen-to-paper documenting–the keeping of records sustains! now that it’s the eighteenth the holidays are really encroaching. i’ve still got loads of christmas shopping to do,…
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11 december 2023
it’s 5:42 and i’m sitting at my desk wondering what i’ll write about this week. the birthday came and went and i was engulfed in love and practicing acceptance of it all. receiving praise and gifts and extraordinary love feels so justified on your birthday, and my work now that the special day is over…
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4 december 2023
today is the last monday i’ll experience as a 24 year old. it’s 8:14 am and i was 11 minutes early to school today. now i’m listening as a six-year-old turns on the old CD-radio in our classroom and scans static, and a seven-year-old who’s just arrived at school shoves a santa hat onto my…
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on love; through revelation
the following words were madly scribbled in my journal on 6 July 2023 and are published here, unabridged aside from added paragraph breaks, at the behest of Claire, who never fails to make me believe in the power of my own words! feeling nervous today in terms of having feelings. feeling toooooo vulnerable and out…
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on paying attention
I was at work when Hannah sent me a link to the leaked documents exposing the future of Roe v. Wade in our country. “disappointed but never surprised,” I wrote back, as if on command. always disappointed, never surprised. we knew this was coming, we saw their hand: they never tried to bluff. I was…
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april thoughts
I can’t believe it’s already april, and nearly a week into it. I feel like I’m watching myself from above, hurtling through life/space toward the unknowable future that feels bigger and more unpredictable by the minute. but today I’m especially future oriented and I’m happy about it; I forgot how good it feels to give…
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on writing
it’s a Monday. I’m writing in my living room even though I have a desk upstairs with an ergonomic kneeling chair. it’s cold out, and the heat has trouble getting up the stairs. I’ve been listening to neutral milk hotel, bright eyes, fugazi etc on shuffle which is good corner-of-the-eye music. went for a run…
loose change 