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"Don't you get it? She's thehouse! She's the plain whiteshutters, the sparkling glasswindows, and the perfect whitepicket fence. She's the ordinarystuff. But you...you're the reddoor. And when people...
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snowy New York.
i've been sick for nearly a week with the stomach bug that's going round and have barely left the apartment, but for the really necessary things.waking this morning to an absolutely white carroll...
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the way you took my hand in yours, just below the table. and how nobody else knew. heaven was that moment.
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i mostly just want a life of slow-dancing in the kitchen.and that's not too much to ask. is it?
View ArticleWHAT I'M LISTENING TO// the milk carton kids
he wrote this song, Charlie, as a letter to his future daughter. swoon.
View Articlehis fault.
i blamed him entirely.it was meant to be just a glass of wine. a good story. and a goodnight.when we met we kissed cheeks once in greeting and i pulled away to sit down, but he pulled me back. kissed...
View Articlelessons in dating.
this last time i saw Tom he asked me to enumerate the many things i had learned from...
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... *and some housekeeping*
"There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness and this is neither. This season is about becoming."Shauna Niequist(found this photo from about a month ago in a dropbox folder that my...
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MY NEW YORK + ROUND THESE PARTS
there's not too much to report on this end. life has been... a little unclear and a little uneasy and quite a bit of leaning into the unknown. but okay. life has been okay--both because of and despite...
View Articledear husband-to-be,
i think,what i'm going to have to ask from you,what i'll need...is for you to be even more courageous than you think you have any right to be.and me too.i'll be that too.
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this is just to say.
last night, in the throws of wooing, a man i'd just met called me charming.which was so much better than being called beautiful.
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MY NEW YORK + ROUND THESE PARTS
as spring hurtles forward, fending off the last of winter's advances (and winter is putting up one heck of a fight this year) i can feel things easing just a bit. spring signals many things: change...
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"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees:but he who is not afraid of my darkness,will find my banks full of roses under my cypresses."Nietzsche
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ON PASSING FUNKS AND SPILT COFFEE.
Mostly I don't know how it happens.How a passing funk just passes.But it does.I think it has something to do with the weather.And a visiting girlfriend who is so damn smart that you watch her and think...
View ArticleIt didn't get any better.
I really did intend for yesterday to be better. The best of intentions...Wedding-day-dress-shopping-day-two. No need to dress quite so fancy. I'd wear flats, loafers. I'd don makeup and a pair of...
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the next bit of the story.
Today is my father's last day of work. 31 years at the same company. Today he "retires"...whatever that means, which I'm not sure any of us know beyond him not going into work every day. It's a big...
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the truest thing i've ever written.
when i was nineteen years old and home on christmas break i awoke from a dream, and upon doing so, scribbled down the following words:it remains the truest thing i've ever written.ironic because...
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