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January 18, 2024

everything else: building

dear internet,

"if you build it, they will come" is a quote i know from screenshots floating around online of a movie called field of dreams, which i thought was about aliens but is, i think, about baseball. the internet told me once that the line is from the bible but i spent fifteen minutes looking this up instead of doing work, and i do not think this is true. in any case it is a line i tell myself when i am creating the conditions in which i hope something will appear. i clean my room, i place books on my desk. the other day my flatmate called me over because if we leaned at an angle we could spot a patch of unclouded sky from our living-room window. endless january, the snow piling up picture-perfect everywhere but here, but still sometimes it's lovely: soft blue light of dusk, soft yellow light of my neighbours' windows. the raspberries in my morning oatmeal, the magpie in its nest, even the slug that i had to remove from our kitchen. every day you build yourself a day.

love,
t
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