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Good morning, everyone! There's something genuinely steadying about this idea, that whatever yesterday held, the light this morning is entirely its own. With the days at their longest and most generous right now, that feels like a particularly easy thing to believe.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! There's something genuinely steadying about this idea, that whatever yesterday held, the light this morning is entirely its own. With the days at their longest and most generous right now, that feels like a particularly easy thing to believe.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! There's something genuinely steadying about this idea, that whatever yesterday held, the light this morning is entirely its own. With the days at their longest and most generous right now, that feels like a particularly easy thing to believe.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! There's something genuinely steadying about this idea, that whatever yesterday held, the light this morning is entirely its own. With the days at their longest and most generous right now, that feels like a particularly easy thing to believe.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! There's something genuinely steadying about this idea, that whatever yesterday held, the light this morning is entirely its own. With the days at their longest and most generous right now, that feels like a particularly easy thing to believe.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! It's easy to take for granted just how much of what we know and value has been carried from one generation to the next between the covers of books. Today feels like a fine day to appreciate that quietly extraordinary fact.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! It's easy to take for granted just how much of what we know and value has been carried from one generation to the next between the covers of books. Today feels like a fine day to appreciate that quietly extraordinary fact.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! It's easy to take for granted just how much of what we know and value has been carried from one generation to the next between the covers of books. Today feels like a fine day to appreciate that quietly extraordinary fact.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! It's easy to take for granted just how much of what we know and value has been carried from one generation to the next between the covers of books. Today feels like a fine day to appreciate that quietly extraordinary fact.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! It's easy to take for granted just how much of what we know and value has been carried from one generation to the next between the covers of books. Today feels like a fine day to appreciate that quietly extraordinary fact.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! This is one of those quotes that stops you in your tracks a little when you really think about it, because it's absolutely true that every book is a kind of conversation across time, and there's something almost ceremonial about sitting down to take part in it.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! This is one of those quotes that stops you in your tracks a little when you really think about it, because it's absolutely true that every book is a kind of conversation across time, and there's something almost ceremonial about sitting down to take part in it.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! This is one of those quotes that stops you in your tracks a little when you really think about it, because it's absolutely true that every book is a kind of conversation across time, and there's something almost ceremonial about sitting down to take part in it.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! This is one of those quotes that stops you in your tracks a little when you really think about it, because it's absolutely true that every book is a kind of conversation across time, and there's something almost ceremonial about sitting down to take part in it.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, my lovelies! This is one of those quotes that stops you in your tracks a little when you really think about it, because it's absolutely true that every book is a kind of conversation across time, and there's something almost ceremonial about sitting down to take part in it.
Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, wonderful people! Everything outside is so alive and insistent right now, and Keats knew what he was talking about, because May has a way of making the whole world feel like it's humming with something that has no interest whatsoever in being quiet.
Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There are few things as genuinely exciting as watching someone discover a love of reading for the first time! This quote captures that feeling beautifully, that particular electricity of words clicking into meaning and meaning clicking into something larger.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, everyone! The days are so long and light-filled right now, and there's real comfort in the idea that even in the darker stretches of life, something steady and bright is still there, just waiting for the wheel to turn back around.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, everyone! The days are so long and light-filled right now, and there's real comfort in the idea that even in the darker stretches of life, something steady and bright is still there, just waiting for the wheel to turn back around.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, everyone! The days are so long and light-filled right now, and there's real comfort in the idea that even in the darker stretches of life, something steady and bright is still there, just waiting for the wheel to turn back around.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, everyone! The days are so long and light-filled right now, and there's real comfort in the idea that even in the darker stretches of life, something steady and bright is still there, just waiting for the wheel to turn back around.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good afternoon, everyone! The days are so long and light-filled right now, and there's real comfort in the idea that even in the darker stretches of life, something steady and bright is still there, just waiting for the wheel to turn back around.
Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's something quietly powerful about the way a book can show you something true about yourself that you hadn't quite found the words for yet. Monday feels like a good day to pick something up with that in mind.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's something quietly powerful about the way a book can show you something true about yourself that you hadn't quite found the words for yet. Monday feels like a good day to pick something up with that in mind.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's something quietly powerful about the way a book can show you something true about yourself that you hadn't quite found the words for yet. Monday feels like a good day to pick something up with that in mind.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's something quietly powerful about the way a book can show you something true about yourself that you hadn't quite found the words for yet. Monday feels like a good day to pick something up with that in mind.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, lovely people! There's something quietly powerful about the way a book can show you something true about yourself that you hadn't quite found the words for yet. Monday feels like a good day to pick something up with that in mind.
Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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A chapter, from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"
Urbanism
Erotism--
Trading Cities
2In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping.
A girl comes along, twirling a parasol on her shoulder, and twirling slightly also her rounded hips. A woman in black comes along, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling. A tattooed giant comes along; a young man with white hair; a female dwarf; two girls, twins, dressed in coral. Something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene: a blind man with a cheetah on a leash, a courtesan with an ostrich-plume fan, an ephebe, a Fat Woman. And thus, when some people happen to find themselves together, taking shelter from the rain under an arcade, or crowding beneath an awning of the bazaar, or stopping to listen to the band in the square, meetings, seductions, copulations, orgies are consummated among them without a word exchanged, without a finger touching anything, almost without an eye raised.
A voluptuous vibration constantly stirs Chloe, the most chaste of cities. If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, pretenses, misunderstandings, clashes, oppressions, and the carousel of fantasies would stop.
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“He told me there were truth tellers, and they needed to know what the truth was, so as to tell it. And there were liars, and they needed to know what the truth was, so they could change it or avoid it. And there were bullshitters, who didn’t care about the truth at all.” -- from 'The Secret Commonwealth' by Philip Pullman
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Good morning, wonderful people! May is such a good month for remembering this, when the warmth is back in the air and the days are long and generous, that the light we carry inside us doesn't actually depend on the season outside to exist. Mind you, this may also be wishful thinking, as it's been rather chilly here this week!
Have a Fantastic Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.
Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.
Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.
Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.
Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.
Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension
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Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙
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The bones of native peoples
Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.
From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjohttps://youtu.be/F3eHJYPId1k?feature=shared
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The bones of native peoples
Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.
From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjohttps://youtu.be/F3eHJYPId1k?feature=shared
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The bones of native peoples
Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.
From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjohttps://youtu.be/F3eHJYPId1k?feature=shared
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The bones of native peoples
Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.
From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjohttps://youtu.be/F3eHJYPId1k?feature=shared
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The bones of native peoples
Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.
From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjohttps://youtu.be/F3eHJYPId1k?feature=shared
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