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“One day I’ll find the right words and...

I've been mildly infatuated with Jack Kerouac lately (and by mildly I mean, of course, a lot, but trying to play it cool).

And even though he's been a lover to many, he's still at the first love stage for me, because---though embarrassed to admit it---I haven't read him much yet, only bits and pieces, here and there.

I don't know what his magic is really, maybe the simple, yet uncommon way his thoughts align on paper: like stepping on thin, raw, vulnerable, ice and hearing it break under your feet and being OK with it... 

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How to Survive the End of the World.

“To look life in the face, to always look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”

~ Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I have epic nightmares about the end of the world. There are three or four mental movies that are replayed in my dreams every couple of months: a tsunami, a zombie/alien attack, a world pandemic and a...