#20 - by tiya ♡ - tiya's love letters

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on the ribbon of loneliness

dear you, it is winter again, i hope you’re well. “it is december and we must be brave” natalie diaz, ‘manhattan is a lenape word’ from postcolonial love poem most of us can understand the experience of loneliness. but so many find it hard to distinguish solitude and loneliness. i saw this illustration recently: jaakko pallasvuo solitude is a dog holding its own leash and being free, while loneliness is fighting against a restraint placed by someone else. “my strength is in solitude, i’m not afraid of pouring rains or great gusts of wind, for i too am the darkness of the night”…

#20 - by tiya ♡ - tiya's love letters

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