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		<title>Craft</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been inspired by my aunt to write lyrics about my grandmother. Heavy with the discipline, heavier with love. She’d stay up all nite making sure all the girls had Easter dresses to wear. Every grandchild had a blanket made for them. The hum of the singer, the thread in the evening. At the time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anatomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still thinking about musculature. The delicate frame of collarbones against the steep architecture of cheekbones. A study in contrast. The collarbones are shallow riverbeds; the cheekbones, sheer cliff faces. Light pools in one and fractures against the other. Somewhere between those landscapes, a face emerges. I began by studying her anatomy. Instead, I found [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alchemy of the Interval</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s time to appreciate the masters again. As if there’s ever a time not to. Today, I am caught between the stark drama of Caravaggio’s shadows and the anatomical grace of da Vinci. My stylus trembles against the glass, searching for that elusive sfumato where bone yields to breath, where structure softens into spirit, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Composition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My mind is a constant, fractured symphony: A collision of muffled adlibs against the roar of a relentless bass line. Whispers give way, demanding a mundane moment be either shattered or swallowed whole. Music fracturing into frozen frames. Yet, sometimes the dissonance resolves. In the dappled light filtering through the window, the internal noise finally [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Echoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Silence drowns. The deafening noise of its echo forces the heart to pulse high in the throat. Every unspoken word returns swollen from the dark, dragging seawater through the lungs. Everyone here knows what they came for The air tastes like decisions I can feel your eyes before I see them. The stairs creak in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fingerprints</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The spray of the summer sea, the siren’s song, salty and grounding. The sun never sets here. It lingers just above the horizon, suspended between leaving and return, gilding the water in a permanent state of almost. It’s time for landscapes and nature doodles again. Small attempts at holding stillness in my hands before it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Drab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Intimate. Soft and aching with nostalgia. Looking at the world through a dust-kissed vintage lens or rubbing the cuff of a favorite sweater until the threads begin to bloom loose. My palette murmurs quietly with a muted trumpet of color. I know this song in my fingertips.&#160;Every exhale already knows the lyrics.&#160; A mutual sinking. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another birthday blurred into the routine and Mother’s Day settles like a quiet promise in the corner pocket. I’m feeling pretty jazzed this week. A buoyant, restless energy. I am a tightly wound coil waiting for release, riding a wave of excitement that hasn&#8217;t quite crested yet. Every conversation feels half a volt hotter than [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cool Cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The cats! Tiny landlords of emotional real estate. I miss the uncomplicated warmth of a furry baby—the pure cuteness, the cuddles, the casual emotional extortion, assholery, and the dgaf swagger of a creature that screams for food like you’ve abandoned it in the tundra for centuries. An emotional weather system: unpredictable, localized, and impossible to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Who’s that?” “Kurt Cobain.” “So it is.” Not the same grunge god that bestowed the First Testament, “From the Muddy Banks of the Wishka”, but the simple man who made it past 28 in my mind. I wonder what he would think of the last 30+ years. His clout goggles are in fashion again. “He’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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