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More Life - by Carmen - Altered

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On no longer wanting to leave

This post was written while listening to Freesoul by Pasteboard. I recommend putting it on while you read. It’s one of my favorite songs, one about continuing to move forward. I remember the first watercolor painting I composed. It was a landscape of the sea. In the dead center was the setting sun, big and orange. The middle, a block of azure. And in the bottom right corner, a small pair of flip-flops in the sand. And from the flip-flops, a trail of footprints leading into the sea. I must have been around eight or nine. I tell people that children are astonishingly bright. They may not…

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