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Feb 8, 2024
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this is my shell collection. my mom use to collected them too. she filled our home with sea glass and clam shellsâ something i regretfully regarded as tacky when i was teenager. i spent my childhood by the ocean but we moved to a landlocked state when i was 10. i thought her collections were born of an inability to let go of the past, something i now understand as a means to preserve the connection to itâ a gentle reminder.
four years ago she started forgetting things. small things at first, the name of my highschool best friend or where sheâd left her keys. eventually, she began to forget my tattoos and how to read. her world is full of gentle reminders nowâ we do everything we can to help her not forget. the collections help, serving as tangible memory links. i think my own collection was born out of this. iâll surround her with iridescent mementos if i have to; i want her to remember.
collections arenât frivolous. sometimes, their meanings are revealed to you as they grow.
four years ago she started forgetting things. small things at first, the name of my highschool best friend or where sheâd left her keys. eventually, she began to forget my tattoos and how to read. her world is full of gentle reminders nowâ we do everything we can to help her not forget. the collections help, serving as tangible memory links. i think my own collection was born out of this. iâll surround her with iridescent mementos if i have to; i want her to remember.
collections arenât frivolous. sometimes, their meanings are revealed to you as they grow.
Feb 16, 2025
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đžthis summer, weâre starting yoga, weâre learning a new language (being bilingual is now the standard, you need to know at least three to be truly chic), weâre going to concerts just because the tickets were cheap, weâre going to museums (especially the weird ones), hitting up the local library to ask for new recommendations, whether itâs a surprise or based on past tastes, weâre painting, collecting and collaging, sewing and embroidering our clothes, re-learning the harmonica, playing chess with strangers online and at the cafĂŠ, weâre taking up tennis and pretending itâs not just because of challengers. the only way to find what brings you joy is to try.
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Jun 11, 2024
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I had to go to Greenwood Cemetery for a class last semester, and many famous people like Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat are buried there, but I stumbled upon this womanâs grave that read âFORTUNATE DESPERATE TRUSTFULâ and I was so upset by the idea of someone putting desperate on my grave that I had to look her up. her name was Eleonora Duse, apparently she was often known as just Duse (so chic), she was an amazing Italian actress, muse, and, importantly, was involved in numerous lesbian love affairs.
I think itâs in many ways much more respectful to learn about the people you pass by, rather than just letting them go on unacknowledged and unknown.
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