Please visit my grave barefoot and with yesterday's leftover pizza. Cold is fine. Don't bring me roses. Jasmine will do. Dig a hole and plant an avocado tree. Use my ashes as fertilizer. Or throw them in the ocean. Let me soak up the Atlantic with my last dying embers. Don't tell them I was … Continue reading Please visit my grave barefoot
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Ode to the girl’s girl
Ode to the girl's girl. Thanks for the tampon girl! The you should meet my best friend girl. Driving down Beach Road blaring Taylor Swift girl. The send me a voice note girl. Equipped with red wine and an axe girl. Ode to the girl's girl. The fuck the diet, just buy a bigger size … Continue reading Ode to the girl’s girl
If this was 1692 my friends and I would be burned at the stake for witchcraft
And thank God for that. We are doing this life right. All wild and willful and wholly independent Healers and helpers and forward thinkers ... We are doing this life right Childless. Chainless. Charmed. Healers and helpers and forward thinkers Refusing to walk on our knees repenting … Childless. Chainless. Charmed. Defiant. Deviant. Depraved. Divine. … Continue reading If this was 1692 my friends and I would be burned at the stake for witchcraft
I see God in the underside of Starlings’ wings
I still don't know how to fold a fitted sheet or how to wire a plug. If my tyre goes flat I will be calling road-side assist. I am thirty one and I think I have forgotten how to pray. I still get lost in malls and have to ask my mom how to remove … Continue reading I see God in the underside of Starlings’ wings
Inspiration: Life is Pain. Au Chocolat.
I have this habit of romanticizing everything. Even the mundane. waking up early for work that first sip of coffee in half-light a moody sunset the grey blue colour of the ocean when it rains a quiet Tuesday evening at home solo runs. solo travel. solo coffee and cakes literally solo any-things second hand stuff … Continue reading Inspiration: Life is Pain. Au Chocolat.
Random thoughts lately
Are the things I believe about my life and the world things I truly believe; or are they just versions of the truth that I have been told by other people - my parents, social media, society? There are so many opinions I held as a younger person that I horrify me today. Beliefs about … Continue reading Random thoughts lately
I find my life full
On a Wednesday in February my cats and I listen to classical music as the sun sends long shadows across the living room floor. The air is soft. One cat stretches out on the sofa as if he has had a long day. The other stalks a fly that is hanging in the summer breeze. … Continue reading I find my life full
Capital Expenditure Deductions
I just want to sit here with the sun rosy-ing my cheeks and the wind wreaking havoc with my hairI want to climb every mountain in sightI want to swim in the ocean until my fingers turn whiteI want to swim all the way to the Ligurian Sea and back againI don’t want to read … Continue reading Capital Expenditure Deductions
How to survive an earthquake
If you can be in this world and not be overwhelmed by it Please tell me how If you can read the news and not feel the hairs on your arms stand on end If you can watch a mountain ablaze and continue making dinner If you can stare at the ocean and not feel … Continue reading How to survive an earthquake
I like
I like people of few words who only say what is necessary. I like beaches of broken sea shells, with sharp edges and hidden treasures. I like under-ripe bananas. I like unfinished paintings, and lop-sided picture frames, and books that end in the middle of a sentence. I like soft tummies. I like scars that … Continue reading I like
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