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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

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the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

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why does cooking takes like six hours and eating like three seconds and washing dishes like seven days and seven nights

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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

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Jenny George, from "The Artist"

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Lil meowboy. Photo from my collection ca. 1950s.

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Book of hours for Brittany, France, mid 15th century

from The Burrell Collection

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You Are Tired (I Think)

by E.E. Cummings

You are tired, (I think) Of the always puzzle of living and doing; And so am I.

Come with me, then, And we’ll leave it far and far away  — (Only you and I, understand!)

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and  — Just tired. So am I.

But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight, And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart  — Open to me! For I will show you the places Nobody knows, And, if you like, The perfect places of Sleep.

Ah, come with me! I’ll blow you that wonderful bubble, the moon, That floats forever and a day; I’ll sing you the jacinth song Of the probable stars; I will attempt the unstartled steppes of dream, Until I find the Only Flower, Which shall keep (I think) your little heart While the moon comes out of the sea.

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i must not kill myself . killing myself is the myself killer

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tanka #6, Tathev Simonyan

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Kim Addonizio, from "Onset"

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do you feel like only a reflection What people see: themselves in you

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its just me and the album i decide to have on repeat this week

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver