just try to be happy

My favorite word is lovely.

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Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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Frank O'Hara, from "Homosexuality"

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[aquaticwonder]

Paris in the rain | Christophe Jacrot

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[wetheurban]

Don’t overlook yourself. Don't downplay your effort. You’ve been trying. You’ve been showing up. That matters.

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One of the most photogenic tornadoes in history

South Dakota, June 2025. Video by eye.of.ty

[chaieyestea]

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Is it the freedom

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[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

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Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

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[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

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