With My Papers Not Proofread And My Manuscripts Unfinished, I Thread On Through The World

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

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you have a place in my heart no one else ever could have 🍃

F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Sylvia Plath, from 'Ariel'

Cambridge, Nov 4 2017

Foxglove Perimeter

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

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“Is it foolish to speak of little joys that occur in the middle of tragedy? It is our humanity. Whatever we have left of it. We must not deny it to ourselves.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky by Garth Greenwell

sometimes i read a phrase in a poem or a story or i see the clouds amble in the sky traced by sunlight or i hear a specific combination of notes on a piano and i just get so overwhelmed with a really specific feeling that i can't really name but i know that this feeling is so human and so tender at its core and that i am a tiny little part of a world so delightfully rich with sensations and i exist to experience this very feeling because it stems from the pure human love for coexistence with the world