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What I instinctively reach for when I’m feeling down: Comfort food, sweets, a glass of wine, online shopping

What *actually* makes me feel better: More art, more nature, time with friends

A reminder that “treat yourself” culture is just capitalism masquerading as care

In London w my little one, we spent all afternoon in bookshops and I forgot how it feels when booksellers actually love & read books! V rare on the continent nowadays.

Getting to the age where I’m starting to measure my life in unpublished novel manuscripts

‘Into which we fall
Without belt or net’
Alina Stefanescu ! It’s still morning here!
🥹😢😭

Chekhov's 6 tenets of a great story (which also make for excellent tenets for living) themarginalian.org/2018/10/03/che…

´Yet, as a romantic, I crave resurrection’
Such a poignant, heartfelt piece, Michaella Thornton! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.” #PaulAuster

Margaret Atwood:

Advice
Langston Hughes

Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.

— Emily Brontë

'There's nothing to be gained from writing but poverty, obscurity, and solitude'

I don't know about you, but April has been for me more excruciating than January and I can't wait for it to be over.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, the short stories

Sic transit amor mundi.
Anaïs Nin’s last letter to Henry Miller, October 1957.
After months enjoying their exchanges over 21 years, these last lines filled me with the inevitable sadness of endings.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz •How to Love the Empty Air

Oooof this one.

If I say 'a toothpaste haul' do you understand I bought a large quantity of toothpaste or something else?

Who's open for subs right now? I'm scrolling Brecht De Poortere 's list but can't find a journal open for flash subs under 500 words.

Ellen Bass writes so honestly in her own voice about love and desire • Mules of Love