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PS: this is my first attempt audio recording a post, though I strongly think it reads better on paper than vocally. Let me know what you think! January is monsoon season. I like the smell of rain and listening to The Mariás indoors. A few good things: I’m healing and finishing medical treatment soon. I’ve reconnected with a few old friends. Simple is all I can ask for nowadays. The simpler it gets, the more fundamentally beautiful I find it — the vivid greenness emerging from a fresh rain, a warm meal, devotion to the tiniest moments that fill our lives. Winter is the season I go to museums. Chicago last year, New York the year before that. I went with Z to an old warehouse converted into a museum this year. It reminded me of that Chuck Klosterman line, art and love are the same thing: it's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. Maybe this sentiment applies to all relationships. Our bonds with objects, places, and most of all with people. I think most of us both fea

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