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existence and aliveness.

In the early 2010s when my wife and I started dating, we looked, lived, and consumed like hipsters, but claimed that we were, in fact, not hipsters. I only mention this fact because I am about to quote a line from Neutral Milk Hotel, and so I wanted to be sure that you know that I know it’s Millennial-hipster lame to do so, but I must. From the prophet, Jeff Mangum in the eponymous song, “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”:

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Is anyone else using Henry Shukmanโ€™s The Way app for guided meditation? ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I eat the fruit. I may as well believe.

โ€œThe caravans had no food, yet food was dropping all about them. If someone had said Look, over here, they would have thought him insane. How can this happen. Am I dreaming? I walk up to the trees. I eat the fruit. I may as well believe.โ€ Rumi, “Visions of Daquqi” This morning, I read A Year With Rumi for the first time in a long time. It had been a while since Iโ€™ve read his poetry.

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๐ŸŽ™๏ธI think 60 Songs That Explain the 90s is music journalism at its finest.

Recent Halloween decor finds incorporated into my office. A reminder of the joy of finding the cosmic in the commonplace (and vice-versa.)

don't overthink it.

I’ve had this blog for a little over three years now, but I have barely posted in it. I keep trying to convince myself that I need to have the perfect workflow set up, that this blog will be for x and the x always means a bazillion different things. I overthink it and journal and write about it instead of just posting about it in here, which, truthfully, would make more sense.

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