Luminary Letters
Notes from a life lived gently — about presence, ease, and growing through rather than growing up. For quiet souls and wanderers.
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what the years quietly filtered out (opens the original)
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sure, you’re right.i say it out loud, calmly, and i mean the calm part. what i say in my head is a much shorter word, one i won’t write here.and then i put the kettle on.there was a time i couldn’t have done that. not for all the tea in the world.<source ty
the lifelong heartbreak of being called a dreamer (opens the original)
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i can feel it coming before i know what it’s for.it starts small. i look at the sofa and see it against the other wall. i notice the light at four in the afternoon has turned the colour of weak tea, and suddenly i want to paint something that colour. i read the same page of a book three times because half of me is already somewhere else, somewhere that doesn’t exist yet, somewhere new.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZEv7!,f_auto,q_auto:g
a familiar kind of autumn (opens the original)
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September doesn’t feel like a reset to me. It feels like sliding back into something warm and familiar, the walks, the stillness, the same handful of things that only seem to matter this time of year.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="400" sr
the difference between having an idea and chasing it (opens the original)
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what no home taught me (opens the original)
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