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What is Nostalgia? A longing for the past? Commentary to defer the future’s inherent urgency? A way to validate the sum of our bad choices?…
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Quietly sighing A man shakes his head and says He has seen enough Stuck in the moment A star shines and leaps toward A bright…
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I have never tripped on psychedelics. Never. If I did, well, the trip continues. A few days back, I took a photo of a lake…
Leave a CommentPan On: The Social Media Files (Part 1)
We live in an insane world. By you being able to read this via a massive digital networking system that delivers information almost instantly testifies…
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I sit writing this to an incredible piece of music. Rufus Du Sol’s Innerbloom has me locked in creative peace: me, the music, and a…
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I was a Journalism and Media Studies student at university. Not for the full duration of my time in tertiary education, but for an impressionable…
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I always knew I’d settle down come my fifth serious relationship. I knew this from a dream in which I was walking alone through a…
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