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Normal is what you can successfully ignore - Austin Kleon

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On living in a changing city.

Here was a house that had wind chimes and bird feeders and monk parakeets mobbing the trees. For the past year or so, as I’ve been riding around on my bike, I’ve been wondering what it does to your psyche to see little old houses disappear every week. Even though I know in my cortex what’s going on — the real estate market, tech money, post-pandemic coastal fleeing, etc. — it’s still deeply unsettling. There is no shortage of pieces about how much Austin has changed, but I’d been waiting for a piece of writing to help me understand the feeling I was getting from it all. This feeling, not of be

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