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  Self-Love For Girls 🤹‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️
    Body & Sex | Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Self-Love For Girls 🤹‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️

    January 21, 2022September 17, 2023
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    Girl, love yourself though it be hard.

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  Talking About Love With You
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Relationships

    Talking About Love With You

    January 18, 2022September 17, 2023
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    You tell me this is what it means to loveYou say that is love, this is lovingYou point me to poetryas a dictionary for the love languageAnd therapy terminologyto dissect this feeling These my friend,are conversations about love,Not love itself(And note, that I call you ‘friend’,not ‘my love’)Because I’ve read…

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  Meditations From 2021
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    Meditations From 2021

    January 17, 2022March 3, 2023
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    It got harder and harder to write in the end of 2021 as feelings drowned me. But I managed to grab a few words & held onto them like my last hope. I just wasn’t able to be my more industrious self & blog them. Maybe I let that side…

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    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion

    Last Mile Hope

    January 17, 2022April 21, 2023
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    The most uncomfortable thing about the pandemic has been living with Fearful Me. It knows no hope.

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  Following The Star In 2021
    Map Of Emotion

    Following The Star In 2021

    January 16, 2022April 23, 2023
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    My 2021 Christmas post talks to ghosts of my Christmases past and right into a silent future under a star.

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  I See Hope Silently
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    I See Hope Silently

    December 23, 2021September 17, 2023
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    Let the waves comeLet the winds blowLet me be soaked, burnt, frozenTrampled by every manner of foe Let the shouts riseLet the voices echoLet there be slogans, insults, criesAnd words that land like blows I will melt, I will breakI will drown, I will searI will bear every wound &…

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  A Peach For Breakfast
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    A Peach For Breakfast

    December 22, 2021August 14, 2023
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    An old post for a new prompt uncovered the purity of my emotion & unabashed sensuality before I met moral policing. But I still like a good peach.

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  Hope Grows In My Garden 🌱
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    Hope Grows In My Garden 🌱

    December 21, 2021April 19, 2025
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    I’ve been a plant parent for 12 years. I started with a sprig of ajwain stuck in a pot & it grew & grew. Some of you adopted its babies in little pots & they grow with proud fortitude in your homes. Over the years, I added herbs (kadi-patta, pudina,…

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  Ghosts Over Tea
    Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Ghosts Over Tea

    December 20, 2021September 17, 2023
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    GHOSTS OVER TEA – a poem

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  Better Days: Growing Hope In The Wasteland Of 2021
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    Better Days: Growing Hope In The Wasteland Of 2021

    December 11, 2021February 27, 2025
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    The pandemic changed all of us. For me, it shifted the way I thought about hope. Inspired by a Clubhouse room theme set by Tareque Laskar – Better Days.

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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