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“I am alone. I am eating my heart out.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Justin O’Brien, from “The Woman Destroyed,”
This is family, Dylan is the son of my cousin. This cancer is super rare, but the good news is he doing well with the treatment so far, but he still has a lot to go through. If you can help him and his family out, every little bit helps.
“I remember the world of cherry blossoms looking up at the sun and wondering, what have I done to deserve this or anything else?”
— John Ashbery, from “Vendages,” Your Name Here: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000)
when anton chekhov said “develop the aesthetic feeling in yourself. allow your heart to ache for what the eye does not see”