thoughts and thinkings of a woman navigating her twenties
occasional diary entries. sometimes in the form of handwritten notes. some extra words posted in between.
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Dear Digital Diary, I haven’t written anything of importance in a little under a month, but I did write a poem. Miss Merlot As a child I skipped to the playground Sick of being inside To which I now only venture when I’m Brain-sick or Belly-sick. I resort to the sway of a swingset and…
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Dear Digital Diary, Last week I was standing over the Grand Canyon. The rocks were painted red like bricks, but there was nothing artificial about the miles and miles of peaks and valleys and pure canyon. I could barely see the trees that sprinkled the earth below, but I could see a hazy green. Someone next to me — who’d smartly brought binoculars…
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Dear Digital Diary, this is what I wrote on October 14, 2023. “I think it’s funny that you think your mind will grow as you do, but it doesn’t. I’m chronically seventeen. And I still feel as I did when I first started writing in journals just after I turned eleven. The thing is that…