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July Is Over
I was dreading July this year. It would mark a year since my step-father’s death. I wasn’t sure how anyone would handle it. I knew there wouldn’t be a big fuss made but sometimes anniversaries can hit harder than you expect. Maybe it was because there always seemed to be some minor issue happening but…
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Dear Diary,
Er, Internet? Tomorrow is June 30th. Another six months of another year gone. <Insert comment on time having no meaning>. It has been so long since I’ve written. (Isn’t that just how the diary entries go, bizarrely conversational as if writing inane letters to your future self about the mundanity of your current life.) I’ve…
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Sunday Song – Italian Edition
I’ve been watching a show set in Italy which obviously has lovely music it in, even though I do not speak Italian I still enjoy the music. Of course a song can be in your native tongue and you could totally misunderstand the lyrics or you could feel something completely unintentional and utterly different from…
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How To Have A Nervous Breakdown
Step one: take your entire life and just throw it into a blender. Step two: pretend like everything is totally fine while moving closer and closer to the edge. Step three: … Actually, I don’t know – how do you have a nervous breakdown? Is there a guide? Am I supposed to do certain things…
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Sunday Song – If You Know, You Know Edition*
*It is a masterpiece of a mystery…or drama…or comedy…or…
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Sunday Song – Eternal Legacies
I sometimes think about how some music seems eternal, as if no matter how far into the future you went you’d still hear it in some form. The Classical composers seem to be like that, they created such depth in their music that centuries later we remix it and continue playing it. Will music from…
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Sunday Song – First Easter Edition
Not what you were expecting from the title? I wouldn’t really know what song was playing my first Easter, but this song was #1 on Billboard’s charts at the time and I do have an affinity for Pink Floyd, make of it what you will. Though I obviously didn’t discover this song until I was…
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Sunday Song – Folksy Indie Edition
I’ve been using SoundHound for ages to quickly figure out that catchy song playing near me. My original search history was reset when I switched phones in 2013, but this was the first song I searched for when I reloaded the app in June that year. I’ve discovered many of my favourite songs and artists…
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Sleep Mode
One of the worst things we seem to have embraced in North American culture, is that being busy equates to success. I don’t like being busy, how can we enjoy life if we are working so hard just to be able to afford our lives. That drive to be successful/busy in our lives tends to…