Proportion

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allan Poe It’s Autumn. The days are cool and bed is extra cozy. Finally, even New York City is bearable. It’s time to embrace pumpkin everything, Beloved! Things in my life have been happy-crazy-busy, and will be for the foreseeable future. Taking

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Promenade en Traîneau

“I just like to smile. Smiling’s my favorite!” —Buddy the Elf Hello everyone! I hope you have all had a wonderful holiday season; I’ve spent a few extremely restful days with my family (except one of my older brothers, who had to stay back home), and I’m feeling very grateful for each and every one

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Golden

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I

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XXII

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Yesterday, my parents sent me the dreamiest bouquet of pale peach roses, white hydrangeas, and black and white anemones. Last night, my instagram bio ticked from 21 to 22. (I don’t

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