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  A Tour Guide to You
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    A Tour Guide to You

    September 2, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Please don’t ask me to read you. I’ve spent far too long looking deep into other people.

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  Capacity For Joy
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Capacity For Joy

    August 26, 2019August 28, 2023
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    I crossed a birthday last month. Joy is getting harder and harder to know.

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  Looking For Light
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    Looking For Light

    August 19, 2019March 29, 2025
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    Light. It’s an idea I’ve yet to wrap my head around, a word I’m still to learn to spell right, a reality that I still don’t entirely fathom.

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  Regrets & Regards
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    Regrets & Regards

    August 12, 2019August 25, 2023
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    Who has time to regret the past when a lesson can be gleaned for the future? FOMO life doesn’t allow for regrets.

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    A Garden of Abundance

    August 5, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I like the word ‘abundance’. It signifies so much more than wealth or any other kind of material possession.

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    Masters Of Sex: How Do We Do This Without The Men?

    July 30, 2019February 25, 2025
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    In the story of Masters and Johnson (Masters Of Sex), Bill Masters does not come off looking good in any way.

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    A Song Of Silence

    July 29, 2019February 25, 2025
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    What does loneliness sound like? A scream that no one seems to hear. Gasps that don’t make it past the throat. Sentences written in invisible ink. The redacted words on a page. It’s feeling unwanted, unnecessary, irrelevant even. Then you remember. You still exist. The print under the graffiti, the face…

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    Coming Out Of Vertigo

    July 18, 2019April 14, 2024
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    I’m enjoying the company of books & plants. For the first time these don’t feel like escape from the loneliness between men. It makes my past feel like vertigo.

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  Surviving the Seventeenth
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    Surviving the Seventeenth

    July 17, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Soon, it will be 9yrs since I made one of the few impulsive decisions of my life. It is a decision I’ve been punished for over & over.

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  Masters Of Sex: Wake Me Up When You Realise Sex Isn’t About The Man
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    Masters Of Sex: Wake Me Up When You Realise Sex Isn’t About The Man

    July 15, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I’m currently watching the TV series, Masters of Sex. It was the first show I began on Netflix when I first subscribed. I had to stop and move to other things that were easier. I’ve tried to come back several times and I think this time I’ll manage to finish…

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  • 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…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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