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We spend so much of October talking about ghosts, telling stories about things that move through empty hallways, footsteps heard above us when no one is home, shadows crossing windows, and voices coming from rooms that have been locked for decades. We like to be frightened by things we can blame on the supernatural Because…
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Not everyone wants an autumn filled with pumpkin patches and matching pajamas. Some of us want foggy roads, old books, unanswered questions, handwritten letters, and perhaps one mildly irresponsible decision. Here’s a bucket list to get you started: For the Romantic ☐ Write someone a letter you never intend to send☐ Watch the sunset somewhere…
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There is a peculiar satisfaction in discovering a word for something you’ve felt your entire life. Language is a catalogue of human experience, preserving emotions, habits, and personalities across centuries. The following words illuminate the hidden corners of human nature and offer new ways to understand both ourselves and those around us. Saudade (noun)A deep,…
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I’ve selected some of my poetic prose lines from my poetry books and social media pages that explore the many forms loss can take: the loss of love, identity, certainty, belonging, innocence, possibility, and time itself. Enjoy. I’ve waited my entire life to feel this way about someone. (I don’t know if it was worth…
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There are people who pass through our lives like weather. Some arrive quietly, barely noticeable at first, while others tear through us like storms, leaving entire versions of ourselves in ruins behind them. A few stay forever. Most do not, but every person leaves something. A lesson. A wound. A memory. A different way of…
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There is a particular kind of heartbreak that doesn’t come from loss, but from expectation. You place your hope carefully into someone and trust that it will hold. It’s the quiet feeling of failure that you gave something real, something whole, and it still wasn’t enough to make it work. You think about everything you…
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After midnight, the house grows honest. The candles burn lower, the walls listen closer and the heart forgets what it is meant to deny. You toss and turn, and the moments that haunt you pay you a visit because the door was left unlocked. After Midnight… Everything you ever wanted to say comes into sharp,…
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Never have I ever is a game you play with friends, where secrets slip out between laughter and raised glasses. You admit to things you might otherwise keep buried, comforted by the possibility that someone else has done the same. In all honesty, we all carry things we’d rather not revisit. By sharing and seeing…
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There are things we live beside so often we stop noticing them until they leave. Just slowly enough that one day you reach for them… and they’re no longer there. A great night’s sleepThe kind that wraps around you and lets your mind rest without asking why. Where is the rest without thinking about every…
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There is a certain kind of beauty that only exists in the undone…the spilled, the tangled, the almost forgotten. Not everything soft is clean. Some things are meant to be lived in—not perfected. Some of the most beautiful moments are the messiest ones. Here is a poetic list for anyone learning to love the chaos…
