Trevor Seyl
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Trevor Seyl
How do you get to know someone you’ll never talk to again?
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it helps, i think, to notice how often we are grieving things that did not look like funerals.
the taboo we don’t talk about: death and grief
Once
when I was young
I had a turtle.
Turtles were my favorite.
He died early.
The amateur's tragedy.
To care
about something
before knowing how
to care
for it.
—Ethan Anderson, 2024
Your work is never going to be good enough (for everyone). But it’s already good enough (for someone).
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
It’s more of a blue-green. Single cab. Three seats. Manual transmission. The fuel gauge doesn’t work. You have to use the trip odometer, reset it every 200 miles, just in case. 43,628 miles on the vehicle when I got it. The truck is nearly 30 years old. That’s 30 years of history. It sat in my grandpa’s garage before it came to me. 20 years. I... See more
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My grandpa’s truck
FOR THE DAYS I STOP WANTING A BODY - Andrea Gibson
Imagine when a human dies the soul misses the body
Actually grieves the loss of its hands
And all they could hold
Misses the throat closing shy
Reading out loud on the first day of school
Imagine the soul misses the stubbed toe
The loose tooth
The funny bone
The soul still asks
“Why does the funny bone do