travelling to see family is delightful, but it’s been 3 years since ive had an australian xmas and i am sorely in need of one. my sister will be coming down & we’ll have an enormous late lunch in the big blue house in the summer heat & play lots of music together.
i’m hoping to spend new years with my friends & midnight kiss my lover & go for a midnight ocean swim & let out a midnight holler over the dark waves
Oct 26, 2024
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I’ve been homesick for my hometown recently. Whether it is my mums cooking, my sisters, the easy access to beach and the chill. Hindsight, growing pains I’m nostalgic for, etc. etc.
The Waifs, a band from Western Australian where I’m from, captures this melancholy for wanting home but also knowing you cannot actually go back. It’s missing what you never had. You’re homesick for being a staple in someone’s life.
I wonder what I'm missing
I think of songs I've never heard
Yeah :) excited for Christmas at home lowkey
Nov 3, 2024
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It was as if all the yearning I had cultivated over the years, spending it hundred, and eventually thousands, of miles away from my family had finally subsided. I was sad that Christmas was spent away. I am looking forward to spending it in a new way I do feel a pang of guilt for this feeling tho. As if my body knows what is expected and feels shame for not feeling what one should feel. I miss them of course I do but I also feel happy with the distance. Are those things mutually exclusive?
Dec 23, 2024
my first trip w college friends and we went around christmas. a little cliche but it was so fun
Jan 15, 2025
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Feb 1, 2024
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romanticise ur blunders & ur missteps, bc that is just part of being a creature. if u saw a duckling fall flat on its face and scramble 2 its feet u wouldn't judge the freakin duckling, u would think it was the cutest thing ever. because it is. we r just organisms in big ungainly bodies, and that is part of our charm. tripping over ur own feet is maybe the most adorable thing u can do. like awwhh u tripped on the pavement </333
this extends 2 social interactions 2. messaging exes that u miss them, making a joke that doesn't land, mishearing/not knowing/forgetting something, etc??!!?! SO SWEET. genuinely such wonderful & important & adorable things 2 do.
i think this is maybe the best thing i've ever managed 2 train my brain 2 do. it isn't foolproof but it makes life a lot gentler.
Feb 5, 2024
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just about everything that happens to you will be interesting to your future self/your descendants/archaeologists. immortalise your to do lists, shopping lists, packing lists, things that loved ones say, things that strangers say, the phrases you hear that would make a good band name. brainstorm what to do on the weekend, list your cravings, the songs stuck in your head, transcribe birdsong, etc. i track my periods & my finances in my journal. sometimes if i really want to take a photo of something i'll restrain myself and draw it in my journal instead. sometimes i take notes for uni in there, or draft sewing patterns, or sketch when im bored. journals are self-portraits!!!!!!!
Apr 21, 2024