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working at a library, i sometimes stumble across things people leave in books (typically as bookmarks)
here are some highlights:
- a small canvas painting of a family (presumably done by a child)
- an Italian stamp, issued 1938 (?)
- a joker from a deck of cards, and then subsequently the other joker from the same deck of cards in a different book
- a gun wrapper folded around the top of a page as if it were one of those magnetic bookmarks
- various pokƩmon and magic the gathering cards (albeit, more pokƩmon than magic cards)
- and a leaf.
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Mar 5, 2025
Lately anxiety is not helping much, and Iām constantly drained due to exams coming up.
I miss my family. I miss myself.
This made me reflect on the fact that Iām still here, and alsoā¦we are such precious creatures. We diminish ourselves, but everything we touch we influence. We are way more powerful than we think we are.
Anyway, letās see what we have here:
ā¢ a fraction of āTHE wallā: from left to right two postcard I bought last summer at the MusĆ©e des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles (āGeorgetteā by Magritte, a pic of Magritte himself, on the bottom a quote I found in a fortune cookie, then a quote I found in a āBacio Peruginaā a chocolate treat that is very well known here in Italy, on top of Magritte two Js as you can see (this is a CRAZY story), then on a post-it a quote of a thing I wrote in a sort of essay, then a poem that my best friend wrote for me, another fortune biscuitās quote, a post-card from a place in Italy called āSacro Boscoā (Sacred Wood, also know as āParco dei Mostriā = Monsterās Park), itās an old black and white photo of a young boy grazing the sheep š), two more post-its (one from roomies one from my mom). Yes I have a thing for post-itsā¦
ā¢ books I started and I never get the chance to finish because of uni (I really recommend though āWhatever arises love thatā by Matt Kahn aaaand to start educate urself on Palestine (if you havenāt already started you should, itās great) āMornings in Jeninā by Susan Abulhawa)
ā¢ Abat-jour, lamp, whatever you call her, with a ānecklaceā (bracelet I made with my granny when I was little, my wrist grew so the lamp suits it better as a lovely necklace), on top a sleep mask.
ā¢ a notebook (I love it, the red one), on top my two pairs of reading glasses.
ā¢ Forest green water bottle (very used, but I love her)
ā¢ A ceramic jewellery holder, which was of my beloved grandmother, with jewels I inherited from her š„ŗ
ā¢ a thing I use to store my bangles and bracelets (my little treasure, theyāre all vintage/inherited)
ā¢ one of my thousands of candles (I donāt know why they ease my anxiety) and mini Corto Maltese (in my opinion a masterpiece in the world of comic-strips) themed matches.
May 12, 2024
A victorian locket made with braided human hair and seed pearls, a photograph of someone's pet bunny I found in an old abandoned manor, a small unlabelled vial of perfume whose origins remain a mystery to me, dried four leaf clovers in my opaque phone case that nobody knows are there except me, small piece of unidentified shiny mineral that i mined as a child by smashing rocks with a hammer until said piece was unearthed...
There are countless others...
Sep 18, 2024
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Feb 22, 2025
planner, agenda, whatchamacallits ā draw in them!!!
i love having a hand-drawn snapshot of the day. the drawings do not have to be good at all (clearlyā¦), just something to spark your memory so that when you look back at your year, you remember what you were doing. waaay better than only writing the event in the planner in my opinion :>
shoutout my 2024 planner (thanks dad)
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