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"If this title rubs you the wrong way, I highly encourage digging into the content here. It’s a reframe I find interesting and necessary in our increasingly polarized communities. It suggests lowering the threshold for our concept of who “deserves” care or to be held accountable beyond binaries of victims/abusers" — Oct 21, 2025 09:17PM
"If this title rubs you the wrong way, I highly encourage digging into the content here. It’s a reframe I find interesting and necessary in our increasingly polarized communities. It suggests lowering the threshold for our concept of who “deserves” care or to be held accountable beyond binaries of victims/abusers" — Oct 21, 2025 09:17PM
I should have felt small, a mere human—petty in my clumsy boots, burrs in my socks, while these trees held a glossary of stars in their crowns, their heads up there in the croissant-shaped clouds, the wisdom of the ages flowing up through
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
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