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Notes On: How to Romanticise October (opens the original)
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers – L. M. MontgomeryEven now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow – Donna TarttIf autumn is a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, then October is a month of velvet and champagne and smoke curling into cold air like hope. It is the
How to be DISGUSTINGLY educated (opens the original)
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall – F. Scott FitzgeraldAll the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made. – Virginia WoolfIf I had to die on one hill only, it’d be that September feels like more of a fresh start than January does. It’s ingrained in us, that sense of stepping into W.H. Smiths to buy a new pencil case, the cool mornings a blank page, nothing but the date in the top left corner, blue fountain pen, the freshest of starts. And th
Notes On: How to Romanticise September (opens the original)
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And so August slips away like a bottle of wine as the world slowly tips us into autumn. Auburn streets. Mists rising like steam. Students gossiping outside bars, sharing cigarettes and opinions about Foucault, or Rooney, or Big Brother. Bonfires. Huge jumpers. The kind of melancholy that feels almost romantic; as though passed down from all the writers who came before us. Sylvia Plath. Emily Dickinson. Donna Tartt. bell hooks. Nora Ephron.Subscribe nowThere’s something so fresh about September
when manifestation doesn’t work (opens the original)
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This is the very first time I’ve ever used this platform as a sort of diary-like space. I’m writing this on Sunday morning, right before I publish it, sitting on the sofa with a heat pad and a strong coffee, typing directly into Substack (as opposed to into a word document to copy and paste after editing). Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for reading it. Each year, on the 8th August, the internet is flooded with well-intentioned people speaking to their cameras and telling you how to make
My Boyfriend Didn’t Propose, And I’m Happy About That (opens the original)
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This piece is in partnership with Hinge #HingePartnerSome people think that to keep romance alive, one must hide parts of oneself from your partner. Pocket the less desirable aspects; sweep the perfectionist or people-pleasing tendencies out of view. Play pretend, in other words: pretend you’re still dating as opposed to long-married, pretend you’re strangers, pretend you’re not quite as complex and unappealing and difficult to live with as you actually are (because – let’s be honest – all human
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