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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Eleven: Sacred Things</image:title>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Eleven: Sacred Things</image:title>
      <image:caption>The first October morning I stepped out my parents house and there was a breeze in the air. When I looked up to find the leaves glowing golden as the sun rose behind them. When I buttoned my trench coat all the way up and walked to the train station to work a new job (still with no health insurance benefits, but not maddening). When I slung my purse over my shoulder, and it didn’t feel like I was carrying a load, it felt like it was a part of me, a part of my weight that my body already knew how to accommodate and move alongside. When I had no one to call, no one to text, nowhere to run home to, just myself and the day ahead of me. I was happy. Just for that moment, everything stopped, and I was able to look, really look at what I was doing, the life I was living, and I was happy. In the clearing that my house once was I see vast open space. The grass is starting to grow back over the dirt that filled the sinkhole. In the space my house freed up I’ve found that there’s finally room for my desire. It never fit in the house, too big and always growing, now it sits on the grass, basking in the sun all day long. This past weekend I had the day off work and decided to spend it riding my bike from my house, all the way to and up the park next to the parkway. The whole trip was about seven miles, I rode through neighborhoods I didn’t belong to, past houses of people who got what they were promised, and into the woods with a history longer than this county and the people who live in it. I sat on benches and watched the water flowing over the rocks in the river and the sun shone, and I was happy to see it again. I could watch as it made the trees around me swell with light and that was enough, I didn’t need it to keep my body warm. Even if just for a moment. Because what else do we have but a series of them, moments, following one another in a chain until it tells a story of a life. That’s what they had told me—stories. Not any good ones, not ones rooted in any kind of desire or wanting, ones that had been told to them, by their own nameless faceless figure, their own systems shepherding them towards a reality rooted in security, sureness, and the kind of false happiness that lasts more than a moment. I don’t quite know what I want yet but I’m getting closer and closer every day. As I follow each impulse without question, as I make hard choices, as I plant new seeds, I’m moving closer to a version of myself who knows exactly what house to build, where, how, and with whom. For now, though, I’ll keep wearing my coat and finding other sacred things to keep me warm.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Ten: Post Grad - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Nine: Land and Loving It - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Beautiful Burren Wildflowers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From Our Hike Up Mullaghmore</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Full Turlough On The Way Home From Class</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Backyard at Meadowfield BnB</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Limestone Shore and Wildflowers In Ballyvaughn</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Album Girl Summer! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Album Girl Summer! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Album Girl Summer! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Album Girl Summer! - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My reaction to one year of Aries-X.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Five - Grown Up Face - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I would do a side-by-side comparison of my face now and my face then, but I’m lazy. Instead, I’ll allow you to go dig on my Instagram and enjoy this stunning tree in the meantime.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Five - Grown Up Face - All cosmic jokes aside, I think now is the perfect time for me to be here. All my life I’ve been a city girl, I felt I thrived in the fast-paced day-to-day that was inherent to city living. I liked it when my life moved faster than I could comprehend, I liked to constantly get on to the next thing. I didn’t think I needed time to look back and reflect. I just wanted to keep going as fast as I could, and so I did.</image:title>
      <image:caption>But now that I’ve been gifted my grown-up face, and been graced with the realization that solitude is not for me, I’ve begun to think about all the other important things in my</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tot Ziens!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Four - Stuck In A Rut. Digging it Deeper. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Four - Stuck In A Rut. Digging it Deeper. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Four - Stuck In A Rut. Digging it Deeper. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>See you soon :</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A picture of me, chilling on vacation.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Four - Stuck In A Rut. Digging it Deeper. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the books I brought on my trip was Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, a collection of essays and speeches by Lorde. I read a few, all of them masterful and thought-provoking but one answered every question and concern I had about my so-called “writer's freeze.” In Poetry Is Not A Luxury, Lorde describes why poetry is so vital to Black Women in particular, and how it plays an important role in our liberation. She describes the use of poetry as illumination, “for it is through poetry we give name to those ideas which until the poem, are nameless and formless.” My “writer's freeze” is something nameless and formless and I think that’s what terrifies me the most about it. It’s unrecognizable, and I felt that if I could figure out what it was, if I could pin it down and name it, only then could I fix it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Four - Stuck In A Rut. Digging it Deeper. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Went to the Guggenheim Museum during the museum mile! Saw a lot of pretty pictures!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Three - June Thoughts And Then Some - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Me.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some banana bread I made the other day.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Three - June Thoughts And Then Some - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.aries-x.com/blog/entry-two-fighting-b</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-09-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Two - Fighting Burnout (and losing) - 80 For Brady (2023)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Four on-screen legends having the most unserious fun at the Super Bowl. What more could you ask for honestly? This is what Hollywood has been missing. Recession comedy, movies exist simply for a good laugh. No more thought in the media we consume. I’m just here for a good time. On the left, you’ll see my custom 80 For Brady pin, made by yours truly to show my support for the film’s 2024 Oscar campaign.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Entry Two - Fighting Burnout (and losing)</image:title>
      <image:caption>From the moment I heard “Movies” for the first time, I knew I had to see Weyes Blood in concert at least once in my life. Her stage presence is ethereal, yet so down to earth. The relationship she creates with her audience is like that of an imaginary friend, she understands you on a personal level yet she seems like nothing more than a figment of your mind. The use of her white dress and cape as a projector for different colored lights and images throughout the show only added to her otherworldly nature. She sounded amazing, her voice was delicate yet purposeful and each song sounded like came straight from the heart (cheesy I know). She performed a good amount of "Titanic Rising” alongside “And In The Darkness Hearts Aglow”, and both albums meshed together beautifully. Weyes Blood is an artist whose voice you have to experience live at least once in your life, and she didn’t disappoint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - My 2022 Favorites by Month - Sometimes I do this fun little thing, where I binge-watch an entire television series in 48 hours and it stresses me out so bad that it gives me nightmares. This happened to me with the first season of Succession.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I get a sort of secondhand anxiety when watching television shows that is very real and very tangible to me. When I watched Succession I felt like I was in the room during each board meeting, each awkward Shiv and Tom argument, and that scene when the siblings are fighting in the kitchen and Kendall bangs on the window shouting “FAMILY THERAPY”; I was there. It was real to me. I didn’t sleep properly for a week after I finished just the first season. It’s an incredible show and I would give anything to be normal so I could watch it without having a panic attack, but I fear there is nothing more terrifying to me than the one percent.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - My 2022 Favorites by Month - August - Renaissance, Beyonce</image:title>
      <image:caption>I literally don’t know what to say other than that lady put crack in the album. It is just too good. When I’m sad I listen to renaissance, when I’m happy I listen to renaissance, I listen to renaissance like I get paid to do it. I have no big complicated spiel about beyonce’s excellence because we all already know. Beyonce.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - My 2022 Favorites by Month - Every time I rewatch Fleabag, it temporarily ruins my life. It’s the only television show I consider “perfect”, every single aspect has a purpose and a place. I started it again after recommending it to my roommate countless times, and once she finally started watching it I was jealous that she got to watch it for the first time and I couldn’t. In order to replicate the first-watch experience once more I expelled all prior knowledge I had of the show in my mind and watched it with fresh eyes once again. Yielding no surprise, it was even more devastating than the last time.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fiction and Poetry - I’ll Go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction and Poetry - I’ll Go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction and Poetry - I’ll Go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>It’s because of her I know how to love  It’s her who taught me the importance of dreaming  She is where i find myself when in any darkness</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction and Poetry - I’ll Go. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction and Poetry - A Brief  Visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is a collection of two short stories I wrote for my ethnographic storytelling class. The goal of the assignment was to create a creative project based on anthropological research we had done in the field. I did my research on solitude and loneliness in public spaces, where I observed and interviewed people navigating traditionally social spaces alone. (Museums may not be considered “social spaces” but I was desperate and running out of places to go.) Based on that I wrote two short stories, about two different types of lonesome museum attendees I encountered.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essays - Ottessa Moshfegh Ruined My Life. - When I read My Year of Rest and Relaxation for the first time, it ruined me. Like every other 17-year-old girl, TikTok hype is what pushed me to pick it up in the first place. I read it over the course of a week, stopping periodically and evaluating whether or not I wanted to finish it. I found the protagonist deeply insufferable, but not in a way that was beneficial to the satire. She was just a cunt, which would be perfectly fine if she wasn’t also racist and fatphobic. When I finally finished that horrific last page and closed the book, I was filled with regret, dread, and deep deep sadness. That final scene was so horrific, Reva falling from her death during 9/11 while the protagonist watches it like a pre-recorded sermon. The protagonist experiencing a transcendent climax while watching her best friend die a ridiculously violent death. It made perpetually me nauseous.</image:title>
      <image:caption>From this point forward the novel burrowed itself into the folds of my brain and never left. It made a permanent home in my mind, it consumed my thoughts, it sucked blood from my veins to fuel its deep evil. When I slept at night I tossed and turned thinking why? Who would do this?</image:caption>
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