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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • We feel like drifters again

    I don’t know what went inside the mind of our little white furball when I put him in his travel backpack, along with his small black squirrel toy, and brought him outside to be carried away by a stranger to a cat-boarding house for the Christmas break. One moment, I roused him from his deep… Read more

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  • Late-night musings #23

    Whenever I go back to where I began, I always think about why I decided to go away—the invisible hands that keep you from growing and seeing a kind of better you would always find elsewhere and never at home. At the same time, going back home also means I now know what I can… Read more

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  • Desires influence decision

    Tick tock . . . Tick tock. . . I could watch the second hand go round and round, letting minutes slip into hours. When I finally snap out of it, one question echoes: “Did I make the best use of my time?” Character creates desires and desires create decisions. This truth reverberated on me… Read more

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  • Overcoming giants

    Sometimes, I can’t believe I am already 30. This age seems like a dream, something I used to long for even before I truly understood what growing up means—I just want to be old and have autonomy over my life (freeeedom!!!). But getting to 30 was a process—facing giants along the way—making me realize that… Read more

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  • Rediscovering a new browser experience with SigmaOS

    Last year, I started using Mastodon after Twitter (now X) stopped supporting WordPress integration. Since I still wanted my blog posts shared across platforms aside from Facebook, I created an account on Mastodon and started to learn the basics about the Fediverse—but I didn’t really go deep. Knowing how to work around the tech was… Read more

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  • Fixed viewpoints

    A year ago, a friend gave us a printout of an art piece framed in cardboard, which I leaned against the wall on top of a desk drawer. And for a year, I kept telling myself how abstract that art was because, until now, I still don’t understand it. Isn’t there some art that takes… Read more

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  • Letter no. 45

    Dear reader from the future, Can you imagine a place filled with life-sized puppets to imitate a place filled with people? I just turned 30 and am already at a point in my life where I am considering raising my own family. I have even started to miss the children my husband and I still… Read more

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jessa

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