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I couldn't visit Manchester without doing a library tour

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2020, a summary

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sometimes your brain really just offers you one banger of a sentence and then that's it for the entire rest of the day. creativity expired, the ability to think has clocked out for the day, context for as to how we even get to this sentence? sorry we're all out. this one sentence is all you get.

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These lines (first from the films, thereafter from the books) taught me something profoundly essential about how to be there for a friend, a lover, or a loved one when they are consumed by despair, weighed down by grief, or overwhelmed by the weight of mental torment. It taught me that some burdens are sacredly personal; untransferable tasks that each of us must face in our own time and way.

Yet, while we cannot take their pain or carry their burden for them (no matter how much we wish we could), there is something else we can do. While we cannot lift their burden, we can lift them. We can carry their weary body, their weary heart, as they bear the weight of their pain. In doing so, we offer them a sanctuary — a place of care and safety, where they can begin to confront their hurt without the fear of being alone in its gaze.

While the pain may be theirs to bear, the journey through it need not be traveled in solitude.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, I love you.

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they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

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summer to-do list: unlearn internalized shame, sunbathe, read some good books

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André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. 2: 1914-1927

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Jenny George, "Tin Bucket"

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Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔰

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breaking news: ur actually gonna make it through and everything will turn out just fine

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a detailed list of things I hate:

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

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june, the month of academic brilliance

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THINGS TO TAKE:

Your time

A nap

A walk

The compliment

Your energy where it’s valued

Deep breaths

Your power back

Your inner child by the hand

Nothing personally

A chance on yourself

It one day at a time

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