30.07.22

30.07.22
“‘I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.” —L.M. Montgomery
Jet lag’s a bitch, but I’m back in the prairies. Now I’ve got a month to spend with family and prepare for law school. Unsolicited advice for future solicitors is welcome.
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25.08.22
“One day you discover you are alive. / Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight / You laugh, you dance around, you shout. / But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” —Ray Bradbury
My anxiety has begun to outweigh my excitement regarding law school, but I made lasagna today and had a not so bad breakfast, so I guess that’s good enough. I’ve finished the day and I’m done with it.
youd think id get used to being human after all this time
when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)