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“The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.”

— Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited

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“Anger is an acceptable form of grief. You don't have to make your emotions palatable to those who are unmoved. Rage isn't the curse, apathy is.

In the absence of relief, our collective conscience can atrophy. You begin to believe this is the way it has to be. Resist. Dehumanization of the suffering is by design, but it is not an inevitable one.”

—Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies, January 2024

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We found this in an abandoned parking lot today

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The Garden of Childhood - Alice M. Chesterton - 1905 - via Internet Archive

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“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”

— Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

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A glimpse of the ocean - Karl Nordström , c. 1911.

Swedish, 1855-1923

Oil on canvas 81.5 x 65.5 cm.

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— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

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Ada Limón, from “The Great Blue Heron Of Dunbar Road”, Bright Dead Things

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“If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.”

— Kathy Kalina