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one month of work
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looking back at my blogging in 2023
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what i'm grasping for is not a place, but a feeling
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the best mutz in hoboken
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in every language there is a word for it
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returning to the land of the well
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cancΓΊn, day 0
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si vivo cien aΓ±os, cien aΓ±os pienso en ti (cancΓΊn, day 1)
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cancΓΊn, day 2: playa del niΓ±o, palacio municipal
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bajo el cielo de kukulcan (cancΓΊn, day 3)
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even the dustiest of streets has a place in memory
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ε€§θΏ photo dump
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the pangs of your sadness will pass as your senses will rise
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the homecoming pauper
published 14 months ago -
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'24 reading year in review
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ζ²ι³ photo dumpοΌmostly θεεΈοΌ
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tokyo, day 0-1: ginza, tsukiji, ueno
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tokyo, day 2: asakusa, oshiage, shibuya, harajuku
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tokyo, day 3: roppongi, harajuku (again), lidabashi
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flying back one hour and fourteen years
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don't miss more than a day in a row
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california, iβm coming home
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iβll look for you in san francisco
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24 notes for the year
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30 day song challenge
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40 questions to ask yourself every year, 2023 ed.
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do not fear the scales (400 posts!)
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look how far we've come (500 posts later)
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a complete unknown
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call her green (a day in ridgewood)
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a night at the opera (outdoors)
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we the people, or something
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academy records & cds (photos)
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actor-observer bias + "be a goldfish"
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clippings from βagainst narrativeβ
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yip yip (a:tla in concert)
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leif ove andsnes @ carnegie hall
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Γ©sa es la vida que te tocΓ³ vivir
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april showers
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the absurdity of the asian potluck
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great american scream machines (astoria park carnival)
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attention, not time, is my love language
published 16 months ago -
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"autobiography" by jen levitt
published 7 weeks ago -
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what if i hate who i'm becoming / and my young heart never runs free?
published 18 months ago -
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back to high school
published 18 months ago -
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back so soon?
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back to december
published 7 months ago -
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the bear blog question challenge
published 5 months ago -
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although of course you end up [not knowing] yourself
published 10 months ago -
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who's afraid of a big bad word?
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a bird without a nest
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what about the plans we made?
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blank cards
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re: things to think about when blogging
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(following the) blood on the tracks
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blood work
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where have you been, my blue-skied sun
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brownies Γ la mode
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don't leave me, september
published 9 months ago -
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work therapy
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damned if i do, damned if i don't
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cauliflowers and other tiny beautiful things
published 12 months ago -
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there are many ways to change the world
published 10 months ago -
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chicken noodle soup for the soul
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clippings from bookbear express
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of rush tickets
published 17 months ago -
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coding again, from the writer that doesn't write
published 18 months ago -
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coffee chats and donut dates
published 10 months ago -
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please come again soon
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βοΈ toeing the edges of my comfort zone
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"coming home" by mary oliver
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conditional friendships
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everything ate everything else with a furious exuberance
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counting my blessings
published 13 months ago -
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courting boredom
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crave sourdough (clinton hill)
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crossover events
published 12 months ago -
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"cryptography" by anne farnsworth
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go skateboarding (chinatown food crawl)
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are we still playing soccer back in that sunny june afternoon?
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my cup runneth over
published 17 months ago -
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dark winter days
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my heart has joined the thousand (dear N)
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death of a bachelorette
published 15 months ago -
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on not knowing what to do in the city with everything
published 13 months ago -
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i pretend i do not see it
published 7 weeks ago -
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a day of detours (moma, nypl, elmhurst food crawl)
published 3 months ago -
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dissociating scaries
published 8 months ago -
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do you remember when
published 12 months ago -
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practically running a dog hotel at this point
published 17 months ago -
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sitting on dogs, again
published 18 months ago -
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in which i learn that dogwalking is harder than i anticipated
published 19 months ago -
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wild old dogs
published 17 months ago -
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i hope happiness is always in all your corners
published 8 months ago -
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what happens to a dream deferred?
published 19 months ago -
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the dust bowl
published 14 months ago -
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clippings from east of eden (part 3 - chapter 24)
published 11 months ago -
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happiness economies and inner sanctums
published 8 months ago -
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eggland's best
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the eighth letter (rilke)
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se acercan tiempos oscuros (el finde)
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βthis is how writers fall in loveβ
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surcharge for bad taste
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euphoria
published 15 months ago -
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"everything" by sharon olds
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(not so) excellent sheep
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expecting rain
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the faces gone with the wind
published 15 months ago -
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quick, make a wish / a shooting star
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falling down the stairs
published 18 months ago -
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we donβt get to choose our memories
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the fragility of all we hold dear
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re: the fear of audience expectations, by gabby
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everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear
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feeling flat
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the first days of spring
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so it begins (pick one)
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there are weeks where decades happen
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tempting the street food gods
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foggy day
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"for the children" by gary snyder
published 8 months ago -
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what are we even doing here? (forest hills, murray hill)
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so which is the lie? silence or time?
published 8 months ago -
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forgetting everything
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(in which i get) free interview practice
published 18 months ago -
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do it franticly (sic) / you will live
published 15 months ago -
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"from one stranger to another" by kyle seamus brosnihan
published 7 months ago -
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gantry plaza state park
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will i be missed when iβm gone?
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be first a good animal
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still believe in good days
published 18 months ago -
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saying goodbye to the holidays
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goodbye to all that
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great migrations
published 7 months ago -
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"greenland" by kyle seamus brosnihan
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gutting my wardrobe + clippings from cannery row
published 14 months ago -
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βοΈ seeking happyness in the pursuit
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2-5x happiness increases are possible (first day jitters)
published 13 months ago -
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hard pills to swallow
published 14 months ago -
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hedging for happiness + a menu of joys
published 19 months ago -
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hello and goodbye, audiobooks
published 3 months ago -
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learning english as a 1.5st language (re: lili)
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what i wish someone had told me in high school
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hip-hopping out of my comfort zone
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home for the holidays
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you better get back, honky cat
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hotpot and imposter syndrome
published 19 months ago -
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of course we will hurt each other
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ignorance is bliss
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what is important is seldom urgent
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incroyable!
published 11 months ago -
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india square (journal sq, hoboken)
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you will have a better life if you just stay home (or maybe not)
published 19 months ago -
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dreaming of saturn
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the great jack-o'-lantern blaze
published 9 months ago -
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vocΓͺ quer jogar comigo?
published 13 months ago -
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excerpt from "john wayne: a love song"
published 15 months ago -
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reacquainting myself with my first love
published 12 months ago -
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voir dire and jury duty
published 17 months ago -
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now that youβre away, iβll just spend my life not knowing
published 8 months ago -
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if you give a misu a cookie (or ten)
published 7 months ago -
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in my lame duck era (& when does the frog jump out of the pot?)
published 13 months ago -
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lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
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the last paycheck
published 18 months ago -
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there may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours
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a most lazy sunday
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le cygne (prospect park)
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letter βto nicholas hughes [undated 1986]β
published 13 months ago -
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listening to disappointment
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listlessness
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life's little apologies
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little mermaid
published 12 months ago -
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looking into the lost forgotten years
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lost causes
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βοΈ i know love as a fading thing
published 12 months ago -
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βlove after loveβ by david walcott
published 13 months ago -
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looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything
published 13 months ago -
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love is believing in their reality
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dreaming of a low country boil
published 11 months ago -
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not during my lunch break
published 9 months ago -
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lying to myself
published 7 months ago -
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clippings from mary ruefle's "madness, rack, and honey"
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"Mango" - La LΓ‘ (lyrics/letra en/es)
published 16 months ago -
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maycember
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if you give a mayfly a minute
published 17 months ago -
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memory day
published 4 weeks ago -
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mild case of the sunday scaries
published 11 months ago -
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missed time
published 10 months ago -
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i want to hear from you! (misu readership survey)
published 9 days ago -
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i am happy when you are all happy
published 11 months ago -
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a monkey in silk
published 15 months ago -
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cannery row (monterey)
published 2 months ago -
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"the more loving one" by w. h. auden
published 8 months ago -
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more to life
published 6 months ago -
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it was loud yet quiet
published 11 months ago -
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because every day is all there is
published 15 months ago -
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hug your loved ones tighter for me
published 18 months ago -
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a man with no alibi
published 3 months ago -
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that funny feeling again
published 17 months ago -
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on being a "no sabo" kid
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nobuyuki tsujii @ carnegie hall
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not because i should
published 8 months ago -
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reader request: my note-taking system
published 13 months ago -
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nothing nonnegotiable
published 13 months ago -
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the premortem
published 15 months ago -
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on the cusp
published 7 weeks ago -
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paid in blood
published 16 months ago -
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parecen viernes
published 13 months ago -
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nobody knows you when you're down and out
published 18 months ago -
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where wouldnβt we go to be no one and those people again?
published 12 months ago -
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the promised land
published 3 months ago -
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potted plant therapy
published 13 months ago -
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no hace falta tan poco
published 7 weeks ago -
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protecting my weekends
published 12 months ago -
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skinny dipping with the elderly
published 14 months ago -
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Β‘quΓ© palta!
published 12 months ago -
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questioning the dedication
published 3 weeks ago -
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cuando el pobre lava, llueve
published 11 months ago -
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randall's island, rfk bridge
published 6 weeks ago -
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re: playing at work, by sam wonders
published 19 months ago -
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recalibrating my job hunt with helpful reader advice
published 18 months ago -
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receding treelines
published 6 months ago -
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reclaiming things for myself
published 8 months ago -
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recovering from ktv
published 2 weeks ago -
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a writing tool + re: make them reject you
published 19 months ago -
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a night at the opera
published 5 months ago -
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"go to the limits of your longing" by rainer maria rilke
published 12 months ago -
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"rookie" by caroline bird
published 7 weeks ago -
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roosevelt island (photos)
published 13 months ago -
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it turns out forks are fucking everywhere
published 18 months ago -
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never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue
published 19 months ago -
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the winds of change are blowing wild and free
published 11 months ago -
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there may be more beautiful times
published 15 months ago -
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struggling with the scale
published 13 months ago -
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please do not die now
published 4 months ago -
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"send flowers" by hua xi
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the promises we leave behind (sf recap)
published 15 months ago -
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(now a) shakshuka purveyor
published 11 months ago -
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shooting blind
published 19 months ago -
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βοΈ shop like an artist
published 8 months ago -
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signs of life
published 4 months ago -
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sit still, look pretty
published 13 months ago -
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sixty minutes to make life fair
published 16 months ago -
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is the sky still blue?
published 8 months ago -
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slapping watermelons
published 12 months ago -
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slumping my way into vacation
published 16 months ago -
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do you smell the smoke?
published 15 months ago -
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for time is the longest distance between two places
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and the voices in his head began to sing
published 13 months ago -
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there is no secret
published 11 months ago -
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ΒΏserΓ‘ que estamos mal / y somos indefensos?
published 16 months ago -
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you have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking
published 7 months ago -
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the water is spangles off soft blue
published 16 months ago -
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happyb rthday
published 17 months ago -
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you [might not] have a better time if you just stay at home
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stay the course
published 8 months ago -
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steaming from inside out
published 4 months ago -
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strings pulling me this way and that
published 10 months ago -
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suffering because i fear
published 15 months ago -
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suffering in imagination and reality
published 12 months ago -
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sunset blvd
published 3 months ago -
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the other chinatown (adventurers and scholars)
published 2 weeks ago -
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take your kids to work day
published 8 months ago -
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βοΈ i want; i hate that i do (the crane wife)
published 6 months ago -
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the first days of summer
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the first proper snowfall
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the gods wait to delight in you
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the guggenheim + albertine
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the incorrigible optimist
published 7 weeks ago -
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the strip mall of your dreams
published 11 months ago -
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love in the time of tinder
published 17 months ago -
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three hundred posts (!) + (more) kind reader advice
published 17 months ago -
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timely!!
published 9 months ago -
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branded on my feet
published 17 months ago -
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sumimasening my way around
published 14 months ago -
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tomorrow is a long time
published 5 months ago -
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"tomorrow is a place" by sanna wani
published 7 months ago -
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en quΓ© arrabal te me escondiste
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do you love something if you don't miss it when it's gone?
published 11 months ago -
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try stay longer
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twenty-four hours
published 9 months ago -
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observations from two weeks of writing everyday
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somebody said dignity was the first to leave
published 7 months ago -
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the unbearable fullness of being [a glutton]
published 17 months ago -
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a long uncomfortable look in the mirror
published 14 months ago -
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i'll be wrong about everything
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what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for
published 13 months ago -
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not everything is as it seems
published 16 months ago -
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waiting for the next event on my calendar to arrive
published 13 months ago -
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"waiting" by hua xi
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wake up calls
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walking the walk
published 9 months ago -
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not all who wander are lost
published 14 months ago -
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it was warm food on a cold day
published 6 months ago -
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βοΈ if this isn't nice, i don't know what is
published 8 months ago -
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how fragile, we bloom
published 8 months ago -
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weary of listening to the nonsense (carmel)
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these are the days that must happen to you
published 16 months ago -
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every love story is a ghost story
published 6 months ago -
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"what the living do" by marie howe
published 7 weeks ago -
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what we talk about when we talk about love
published 5 months ago -
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βοΈ killing the group chat (again)
published 4 months ago -
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this love is strong, why do i feel weak?
published 13 months ago -
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"wild geese" by mary oliver
published 7 months ago -
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what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it
published 9 months ago -
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winter cravings + models overtrained on men/women
published 18 months ago -
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the workversary (1)
published 3 weeks ago -
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on writing forever and being a good Bear citizen
published 18 months ago -
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you can't write a good story following a formula
published 18 months ago -
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writing my thinking
published 12 months ago