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niko
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- i am performative in the sense that yes i’m reading my little book at this cafe but i’m also eavesdropping on your conversation
- april wasn't very kind to me tbh and i'm still picking up the pieces. everything i've done this month was to keep myself afloat long enough as i waded through the days like waves during a storm. this may i will find strength to swim with the current than fight against it.
- one of my favorite poetry lines that i’ve been using as a mantra lately is “life leans towards living.” to choose the world again and again and again. always. despite despite despite
- “may your trials end in full bloom” has to be the most beautiful line ever written
- when ursula k. le guin said “love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
- “from the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through, all the way to the moon, it feels like everything & everyone is crying out in pain, arching towards love. love is that inhospitable land beckoning and then rejecting us.”damn mitski's new artist bio HITS
- just wrote in my journal how kindness—both towards others and myself—has saved me over and over and over again this year. i hope to share more of it in 2024.
- officially turned 24 and revisiting nietzsche’s essay written near his 30th bday. it talks about the process of self-discovery as one that isn’t about looking within but beyond. by seeking joy and inspiration in people and things that elevate your soul.
