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went to an estate sale this weekend and this was pretty cool to look at --- an organized collection of shells by location/year. working on slowly building up my own collection of trinkets so i can also be a super cool old person in the future
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this is my shell collection. my mom use to collected them too. she filled our home with sea glass and clam shells— something i regretfully regarded as tacky when i was teenager. i spent my childhood by the ocean but we moved to a landlocked state when i was 10. i thought her collections were born of an inability to let go of the past, something i now understand as a means to preserve the connection to it— a gentle reminder.
four years ago she started forgetting things. small things at first, the name of my highschool best friend or where she’d left her keys. eventually, she began to forget my tattoos and how to read. her world is full of gentle reminders now— we do everything we can to help her not forget. the collections help, serving as tangible memory links. i think my own collection was born out of this. i’ll surround her with iridescent mementos if i have to; i want her to remember.
collections aren’t frivolous. sometimes, their meanings are revealed to you as they grow.
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when u feel something moving on ur skin and u look and its actually an ant and then for hours afterwards u keep noticing every small sensation and keep feeling like something is crawling on you and its nothing but u cant stop (i hate ants im sorry i tried not to hate them bc they can be cool in a science way but get them tffff out of my house)
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wanted my friend to come over to lay down and listen to music with me but they had a rough day at work so i offered to cook dinner for us and they are picking up a couple ingredients on the way over. i think this is what life is supposed to be about
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i loveeeeeeee to express my love and feelings to the people i care about. 1. youre gonna know it bc i wont stop telling you how i feel & 2. im gonna be clingy and do stuff to make you feel important and that your existence is valued. life is too short for nonchalance so tell people how special and important they are to you while they are there
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