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  Learning To Read Poetry
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Learning To Read Poetry

    October 9, 2021February 27, 2025
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    Most bookshops don’t have an entire aisle on poetry. Poetry has never really found a home in my book shelf or life.

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  You Are In Our Conversations
    Poetry | Relationships

    You Are In Our Conversations

    October 3, 2021September 17, 2023
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    You are in my conversations. You are part of my conversations. You are in every breath even as I’m profoundly me.

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  The Love Depths
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    The Love Depths

    October 1, 2021March 5, 2023
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    We don’t love people because they deserve it. We love people because we deserve it. These are our depths.

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  A Rather Long Monologue But It’s Poetic
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    A Rather Long Monologue But It’s Poetic

    September 24, 2021December 29, 2023
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    A monologue because is love ever anything else? If we’re lucky both faces of love are modeled for us in clear, unambiguous ways.

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  Love Language
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    Love Language

    September 18, 2021March 5, 2023
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    LOVE LANGUAGE – my journey deciphering my experiences through the words of love songs in different languages

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  Where’s The Flirty Party? – The Power Moves of Flirting
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    Where’s The Flirty Party? – The Power Moves of Flirting

    September 12, 2021September 16, 2023
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    Flirting feels like a party I wasn’t invited to. A concert playing all around me & everyone’s vibing, except me.

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  BOOK REVIEW: The Guide – RK Narayan
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    BOOK REVIEW: The Guide – RK Narayan

    September 10, 2021July 3, 2024
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    Because of the Bollywood associations, I was worried that ‘The Guide’ would disappoint me when other RK Narayan works had delighted.

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  Dignity In A World Of Tumult
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    Dignity In A World Of Tumult

    September 10, 2021March 5, 2023
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    I’ve been thinking about dignity. I do, a lot, especially when I feel I’ve not been dignified. I haven’t felt it lately because I haven’t felt in control of anything. But dignity isn’t about control, is it? I realised that most of my emotional decisions were trauma reactions. It wasn’t…

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  So Long & Thanks For All The Sunshine!
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    So Long & Thanks For All The Sunshine!

    September 8, 2021March 5, 2023
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    I’ve been cycling for a month now. I was lucky through all of August where my high energy days coincided with sunshine moments.

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  • Lessons of Leo
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    Lessons Of Leo 👑

    August 31, 2021February 25, 2025
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    August, Leo month, brought me back to life, piecing together from debris, things I’ve never owned.

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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…”
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  • 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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