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Janvier
“There are many things we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” -Oscar Wilde January is a fragile month. The new year is only just hatching, stretching its wings,...
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Sakura-iro
Oh, I know how it is in the spring when Japonica’s in bloom and rivers of many waters bring life to the unplucked fruit. Then the vineyards of the Maidens flower on every shaded vine; all flourish in...
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FOTA
CHIAROSCURO blackberry caviar, coconut mousse, coconut crumb, coconut yolk, blackberry puree Hi! To any newcomers, welcome to my blog, and welcome to my project for UChicago’s spring Festival of the...
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Tårta
O, Pivoine From verdant buds they did erupt; from tight globes came flowers flush. O, the peonies blossomed, fat and full, on a day that promised rain. A hundred thousand petals unfurled as a misty...
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Rouge
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. –Anna Akhmatova Color of...
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Trending
“As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts Oh, the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? For every kiss your beauty...
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Ad Lucem
“One star in the sky leads sailors home. A butterfly can start a hurricane. A grain of sand begets a landslide. You are important, and the universe is empty without you. Believe me.” —Abigail Cicero...
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Jewelled
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”...
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All of It
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and...
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Day by Day
“The way you live your days is the way you live your life.” —Annie Dillard I am trying to use my days to make my life into whatever the hell I’m pretty sure I think I want my life to be like. I have a...
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Back At It
“The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” —Mark Twain Whoa. Back-to-school definitely just happened. I’m done with my first week of classes, and just about to start on my second. 9 days now of...
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Lumi
Hospital gowns never fit like they should We yelled at the nurse, didn’t do any good More morphine, the last words you moaned At last I was sure That you weren’t far away from home —The Lumineers,...
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Quatrième
“Recognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create. If people enjoy what you’ve created, terrific. If people ignore what you’ve created, too bad. If people...
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Never Too Late
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit—stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to...
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Vingt-Et-Un
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one...
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Comfort and Joy
“For it is in giving that we receive.” Prayer of Saint Francis Merry Christmas Eve and a very happy first night of Hanukkah! I have not yet wrapped my gifts nor done all the productive things I needed...
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Laplace
If an intelligence, at a given instant, knew all the forces that animate nature and the position of each constituent being; if, moreover, this intelligence were sufficiently great to submit these data...
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Mêlé
“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.” Joan...
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Temptation
With strawberries we filled a tray, And then we drove away, away Along the links beside the sea, Where wind and wave were light and free, And August felt as fresh as May. And where the springy turf...
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Sweetest Surrender
The sweetest surrender of winter She put up a flag it is waving The thunder of summer is rumbling in And I haven’t seen you in days And my how that feeling has changed. I have been homesick for you...
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