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Quoted
We are all failures — at least the best of us are. — J.M. Barrie
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Thalassophobia
Thalassophobia: irrational and paralyzing fear of the ocean I’ve taken to collecting the names of phobias. This print is now up in the shop. Check it out!
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Reading Watching Listening
Reading… Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter. I actually read this a few weeks ago on the plane back from London. It’s moving and beautiful and I am still trying to work through everything it offers. Watching… Downton Abbey, season 6. Finally finished this one and am now going through some major withdrawal. I’m pretty happy with how everything shook out in the end though. Listening… Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell performed by Tenebrae. My fabulous hosts in England introduced me to this album and I’ve been recommending it to all of my friends ever since.
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Peggy’s Cove
I just added this gem to the shop. I love that this isn’t the traditional image of Peggy’s Cove. It’s a beautiful place, but so many of the photos people take end up looking like the kinds of postcard, tourist images you would expect. Blue sky, blue ocean, grey rocks, bright red lighthouse roof…these kinds of pictures are beautiful, but I always want to look at tourist spots slightly differently, find novelty in things people have seen countless times. I actually used to love visiting Peggy’s Cove in the off season. I would drive out, wander the rocks until I was so cold I couldn’t stand it, and then have a…
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Read This
Required Reading. For a laugh. I am probably one of the most awkward people on the face of the planet when it comes to flirting interactions. Of course, the fact that 90% of the time I am entirely unaware that flirting is occurring likely does not help my case. This, plus a recent situation involving my friend being unable to figure out how to respond to “you have lovely eyes”, mean that “How To Respond When You Suspect Someone Is Flirting” by Mallory Ortberg seriously delights me. I’m probably just going to memorize this list for future use. “Thank you for your time and for your goodwill.” “I am happy…
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Quoted
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. — Emma Goldman
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Read This
“The Writer” by Richard Wilbur. I’ve loved this poem for a long time, and have some very fond associations with it. To be honest, however, I hadn’t thought about it in a very long while. Then, the other day, a series of internet rabbit holes somehow miraculously led me back to it. This was delightful not only because it reminded me of this piece, but also because internet rabbit holes usually lead to the scariest parts of the internet, so this was a far more pleasant outcome. The Writer Richard Wilbur In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed…
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Quoted
Life is very weird, no matter how it ends, very filled with dreams. — “Vita Nova,” Louise Glück
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Quoted
Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. — Samuel Johnson
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Reading Watching Listening
Reading… Correspondences by Anne Michaels and Bernice Eisenstein. Yes, this is one of my dissertation texts (at least it is right now), but it is also one that I genuinely love. Watching… Modern Family. I finally got around to watching this show and it has rapidly made its way onto my list of “sitcoms I love.” Listening… Løvenskiold’s score for La Sylphide. I went to see The National Ballet of Canada’s production of La Sylphide last weekend, and it was stunning. The set, the costumes, the dancing…all gorgeous. I’ve been loving the score this week, and I’m thinking I need to include it on my playlist for my flight next week. …