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ty for the monday morning existential crisis

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you're welcome I think! fwiw, my hope for the poem was something along the lines of a solution to an existential crisis rather than simply gesturing at the crisis, but I'm not sure the sense of hope came through

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You just gestured at the crisis too evocatively (lines 1-16) for me! I had worked out my own solution to those feelings and then like a year or two ago, it stopped working. But the sense of hope came too

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Extremely grateful your play by play, Paul. And sorry to hear the feelings returned ❤️ Solidarity 🫡

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Love this, Mark.

"the death/ we fear in our bones is the death/ that every night we call a dream." -Borges

"A seed is alive while it waits." -Hope Jahren

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I love these quotes! Especially the second one. It's a metaphor I hadn't heard. Thank you for reading and commenting, Ashley ❤️

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