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Author: Joy
It’s cloudy tonight
I think I've been doing it for close to a decade now? Finding a comfortable spot outdoors, pouring myself a glass of wine (or a cup of hot chocolate), and staring at the stars in the late hours of the night on two occasions: the Perseids, most visible during August, and the Geminids, which appear… Continue reading It’s cloudy tonight
ETA: whenever’s serendipitous
The biggest takeaways, I think, for my 26th year (and the first half of 2021 -- overlapping save for 6 days), are these: time is weird, but/and you'll know when you're ready. It's not been a secret how horrible last year was, for everyone. The world came to a halt even as infections increased, and… Continue reading ETA: whenever’s serendipitous
This isn’t anything, right?
The first time you told me you dreamt of me after I told you I dreamt of you, I thought -- well, it can't be anything, right? We've just been talking fairly constantly, our ears extensions of each other's mouths (or, more accurately, our fingers connected at the tip as we talk and talk and… Continue reading This isn’t anything, right?
Fitting in
In one of my favourite songs (and one of her best), Julien Baker, after a somber stringed intro, sang: "If I could do what I wantI'd become an electricianI'd climb inside my headAnd I'd rearrange the wires in my brain" And now, as I lie in bed and alternate between reading this book I've been… Continue reading Fitting in
Catching feelings
I hate catching feelings. I really, really do. I mean, I guess I like a lot of things about it: I like that I begin to look forward to mornings just as I do to nights when you'd tell me good night or when I wake up to your singsong-y voice. I like that I… Continue reading Catching feelings
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the concept: in chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. translated: one small event can drastically create waves of change somewhere else. the history: in the vocation of… Continue reading [ p r o m p t e d ]
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Life has been a series of grim events lately -- more black than white, less light and more shadows: creeping, lurking, just waiting to pounce. I have not been in a while but recently I have been even less so: happy. I miss conversations, hugs, and music that I share with friends over beer, or… Continue reading Updates:
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Happy to be here
In deep contrast to usual new year's eve festivities, last year (because we've officially transitioned to 2021) was the first time I never even came close to considering writing a post to celebrate the year that was. And what for? With countless natural disasters, a piling death toll, an increasingly authoritarian regime, a global pandemic,… Continue reading Happy to be here
Of perpetual finds 