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Illustration: Ravneet Sehmbi - By Bodies of Water

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www.naveedk.com/books • 👻 therealnavk (at Toronto, Ontario)

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Sis put me on a shelf with some of the greatest 🙏🏽 Get your copy of By Bodies of Water / www.naveedk.com

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I’m so grateful to have people who continue to support me in absurd endeavours. I say absurd because creative feats are often admired but not wholly respected. And to me, that’s fine all the same.

What’s more is that it’s interesting to be able to look back. I don’t revisit my own work very often (because of the frequent compulsion to hit delete or tear apart everything I’ve ever written). But when I see it pop up on my feed or as something I’m tagged in, it makes me happy to know that something I’ve created has resonated with someone in some way.

Yes, we’re each our toughest critics. But we’re also each evolving (hopefully) and are shaped by our experiences. I may no longer identify with the style of writing that a Me from the past had previously indulged in, but I acknowledge often that every step along the way contributed to the person I am today. I don’t write what people want to read. I write what I feel in the moment that I feel it. And I hope to be able to share more to come.

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The Trinity. >>> www.navk.ca/water

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From the final pages of By Bodies of Water, shared by @alexander.jermaine via Twitter. (at www.navk.ca/books)