it’s either gorgeous or devastating The care we pour into temporary things. Like how we know birthday cards all end up in landfills, but still dig for the perfect words to write in them. The way we draw hearts on fogged-up windshields, even though we know they’ll disappear in a breath. How we know we won’t live in our houses forever, but we still paint the walls and mark the doorways with our children’s heights and bury our dogs in the backyard. Let’s go with gorgeous. Gorgeous, radiantly reckless, and brave: to know your world is made of sand and still try to build a castle. To carry on as
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