Love and pain are all but synonyms in my mind. The two cannot exist apart from each other. Love is always accompanied by heart break, and I'm okay with that. Pain has been my greatest, most consistent teacher.
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I Have Been Self Censoring
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." Friedrich Nietzsche
Easy Fall Reading List
Since I've been so bad at posting book reviews this past year.... or so. Here's a list of easy reading for your fall. My fall looks a lot different than the Insta worthy hashtags because I live in Houston, and I'll enjoy my week of fall weather sometimes in February.
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn Explores Specific Yet Universal Themes
Shoneyin tackles universal themes by exploring the interior lives of four Nigerian women through the secrets they keep in a conservative, polygamist family.
11… Things I Learned Camping the Grand Canyon
I wanted to make my solo camping trip to the Grand Canyon more than just time to center myself, connect with nature, and escape life's hustle. Driving through Arizona as the sun rose, I knew I wanted to take the opportunity to learn and challenge myself to find the people who lived in and around the Canyon for thousands of years before white people arrived to fuck shit up.
Happy 168th Homecoming, Cornell College
Happy 168th Homecoming to Cornell College. I doubt they've had 168 homecoming celebrations. Did homecoming even exist in 1853? (Cornell University sure didn't. Ha! We're the older, smaller, and better (not a subjective opinion, at all) cousin—literally—in Iowa. Easily confusable, I know.) As a die-hard alum, I filled my house with flowers in school colors in honor of homecoming.