Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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Romantic thinking

Romantic thinking

“When you hit a wall, just kick it in.”

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Aug 13, 2022
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The second result for “rose” on Giphy

A friend recently found out I never read Just Kids.

Three days later a copy arrived in the mail, Patti Smith’s 2010 memoir about her long relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. I started it Sunday morning. I was two-thirds done by Sunday afternoon.

It’s almost exceedingly romantic about the lives of artists and the a…

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