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Teary and touching reads, small wins, and flirting

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Apr 30, 2023
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Some touching things I read that made me teary (and feel shimmeringly alive)

  • “Like anyone else, I spent my quarter-life years wondering who I would become. Now I know.” —

    Katie Hawkins-Gaar
    of
    My Sweet Dumb Brain
    asks is this it? and answers with a glorious and resounding yes.

  • “The truth is, you don’t really know how you will react when your mortality comes swinging into view.” — Tim Jonze on how he realised it was time to start living

  • “When I shattered from life, I left shrapnel embedded in some of the strangers to come. Keep your eye out for the fragments. You’ll see pieces of me glinting…” — Namwali Serpell’s beauty tips from my dead sister is poetry (via

    Jessica Stanley
    )

A thing to try

  • Celebrate Bad Times…Come On! — draft your own list of small wins inspired by Lyndsay Rush’s poem and the delightfully ordinary things in the comments section

Impossible and necessary things

“Some necessary things are impossible,” says Clare.

“And some impossible things are necessary,” says Felice.

— Tennessee Williams, The Two Character Play

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