24, With Tears
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24, With Tears
notes from the end of summer
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I let the mirror hold those flaws—because for once, drying, they were not wrong to me but something that was wanted, that was sought and found among a landscape as enormous as the one I had been lost in all this time. Because the thing about beauty is that it’s only beautiful outside of itself.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
Grace in Aging
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:
To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss,... See more
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:
To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss,... See more
Sitting at Yum thoughts
Every person has their own story, thinking about this is a very perplexing and overwhelming thought. We try to ‘be ourselves' so often and try to find ourselves but really we are all at the same time, from the same place, made up of the same things. This inspired me. Actually taking the time to sit and look around is such a
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