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lately, with love - by Alicia - upcycled words

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So much of my life recently has been moving with change, living with the flow of new city, new program, and learning to live without the same linear markers of time. I am attempting to find new friends, and trying desperately to keep the old ones. It is the most clichéd of post-grad experiences made more difficult by my avoidance of texting as a form of correspondence. I’m okay with being the friendly neighborhood ghost. * * * Letter writing has brought back a lot of the joy that I find missing in texts. I write silly letters and include my art experiments and add my beautiful little wax stamps. I enjoy receiving letters and sketches in return. It’s wonderful and cozy and somehow feels like less effort to write in a form that flows so naturally. Pen on paper like a voice on a mouth. * * * It could be the abundance of nature or the want of a new feeling, but I find myself playing with more physical and organic forms these days. I collect snippings of plants from my walks around the neig

So much of my life recently has been moving with change, living with the flow of new city, new program, and learning to live without the same linear markers of time. I am attempting to find new friends, and trying desperately to keep the old ones. It is the most clichéd of post-grad experiences made more difficult by my avoidance of texting as a form of correspondence. I’m okay with being the friendly neighborhood ghost. * * * Letter writing has brought back a lot of the joy that I find missing in texts. I write silly letters and include my art experiments and add my beautiful little wax…

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