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Drinking a large amount of water every day helps you avoid other people's drama because you're too busy peeing.

Stay hydrated.

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I Am Learning to Abandon the World

by Linda Pastan

I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends. I have given up melodic lines of hills, moving to a flat, tuneless landscape. And every night I give my body up limb by limb, working upwards across bone, towards the heart. But morning comes with small reprieves of coffee and birdsong. A tree outside the window which was simply shadow moments ago takes back its branches twig by leafy twig. And as I take my body back the sun lays its warm muzzle on my lap as if to make amends.

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sylvia plath | as consciousness is harnessed to flesh, susan sontag | invitation, mary oliver | imaginary conversation, linda pastan | birthday, andrea gibson | good bones, maggie smith | the painted drum, louise erdrich | mouthful of forevers, clementine von radics | new year’s eve, maggie smith

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We are so brief.  A one-day dandelion.  A seedpod skittering across the ice.  We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird.  I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

~Louise Erdrich, "Future Home of the Living God" (Harper, August 21, 2017) (via Make Believe Boutique)

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Handmade Stained Glass Praying Mantis by SunnySandGlass

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by Tomasz Wawryczuk

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Rosa Kirsch