Small Joys

 the small joys in life are getting me through the rest of the semester
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It is not easy … to wait. Waiting is what the hunter does, and the poet and the slugger. He waits for the moment of inevitability and fate and then he swings, or shoots, or takes up the pen to put down a line. They don’t teach us to wait in America; they teach us to grab. But waiting is what we do when we are looking for something beautiful, when we are looking for an end to our sorrow. Nothing is infinite in life, not even sorrow. You just have to wait.
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We'll fall just like stars being hung by only string
Everything, everything, here is gone
No map can direct how to ever make it home
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 Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Pablo Picasso
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I Don't Feel It Anymore : William Fitzsimmons