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Mountains and Sea by Helen FrankenthalerAdulthood is learning that normal everyday things you take for granted are very, very, expensive. And difficult to choose. I realized there are a million different kinds of mattresses – springs, hybrids, hot-or-cold-sleepers, memory foam, all other sorts of foam. As the anxious shopper I am, I laid down one night and watched hours of mattress review videos to find the perfect mattress. All of this research was pretty useless because by the time my new m...
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Mountains and Sea by Helen FrankenthalerAdulthood is learning that normal everyday things you take for granted are very, very, expensive. And difficult to choose. I realized there are a million different kinds of mattresses – springs, hybrids, hot-or-cold-sleepers, memory foam, all other sorts of foam. As the anxious shopper I am, I laid down one night and watched hours of mattress review videos to find the perfect mattress. All of this research was pretty useless because by the time my new m...
something recognized
A one-take write, meaning I wrote this in one sitting (with multiple cups of coffee)The Swan by Hilma af Klint A needful beauty emerges from identification. You: someone's child, best friend, lover, writer, thinker, reader, logician. You carry these identities with you as you cross the street, the sun warming your back. You carry them through the year of bruises, the year of small joys. Of course there is deep safety in knowing concretely where you fit in. In your life, you see to it tha...
something recognized
A one-take write, meaning I wrote this in one sitting (with multiple cups of coffee)The Swan by Hilma af Klint A needful beauty emerges from identification. You: someone's child, best friend, lover, writer, thinker, reader, logician. You carry these identities with you as you cross the street, the sun warming your back. You carry them through the year of bruises, the year of small joys. Of course there is deep safety in knowing concretely where you fit in. In your life, you see to it tha...
the hibernation of swallows
Magpie by Paul GauginSeptember. The swallows migrate, a ballet in the sky. Through Western France, the Pyrenees, down eastern Spain into Morocco, across the Sahara. They dip down near rivers, lakes, and swoop back upwards. Their bodies are faint against the sky, creating translucent, shifting shapes. Back in the 1700s, biologists and philosophers alike pondered the early September nature of sparrows – why they disappeared in troves. They believed that the birds were hibernating underwater. Se...
the hibernation of swallows
Magpie by Paul GauginSeptember. The swallows migrate, a ballet in the sky. Through Western France, the Pyrenees, down eastern Spain into Morocco, across the Sahara. They dip down near rivers, lakes, and swoop back upwards. Their bodies are faint against the sky, creating translucent, shifting shapes. Back in the 1700s, biologists and philosophers alike pondered the early September nature of sparrows – why they disappeared in troves. They believed that the birds were hibernating underwater. Se...
