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July 29 - July 30, 2025
Falling in love with her meant having no room in his own body. That was why he danced.
Absolutely!
How do I explain that I’m going to be leaving him even before I die?”
Grandpa always says that the years will allow them to meet in the middle, when the boy’s thoughts expand and Grandpa’s contract.
*cries*
“Those are all my ideas,” Grandpa replies. “They’re blowing away.” “They’ve been doing that for a long time.”
Please make it stop 🥲
“Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,”
“The only time you’ve failed is if you don’t try once more.”
“Isn’t it? I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it’s just children and old people who laugh.”
What a perspective?
I’m constantly reading a book with a missing page, and it’s always the most important one.”
“It hurts less and less. That’s one good thing about forgetting things. You forget the things that hurt too.”
Dissociation
“I miss all our most ordinary things. Breakfast on the veranda. Weeds in the flower beds.”
I tend to think about the ordinary things I’ll miss when I can no longer do them.
“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”
Live your life. It’s an awful thing to miss someone who’s still here.”
The amount I love you, Noah, the sky will never be that big.”
How I love my kids.
It’s a big universe to be angry at but a long life to have company in.
The positive 🥹
