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For Me, It's My Nose
For Me, It's My Nose

I recently read an article about why I should get a nose job. It was written by an illustrious Instagram influencer who had recently undergone the knife. I imagine she had regurgitated the same spiel in defence of her new honker over and over to probing quibblers until she finally threw up her hands in frustration and told them they can find the damn-link-in-bio.

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I Don't Want to Write About Singleness
I Don't Want to Write About Singleness

I’ve gone to a lot of weddings by myself. I rock up to the church in four inch heels and my parent’s minivan, toting a gift I hope they actually want. I sneak in the back and sit next to someone I vaguely know, inevitably cry during the wedding vows, and then afterwards, in the lobby, sip punch and turn on my best girl-flirting (ohmygoshyoulooksogoodwheredidyougetyourdress?!).

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Don't Be Shy
Don't Be Shy

You’re teetering on the edge of the wooden dock, hands clutched beneath your chin, shivering, squealing, trying to muster the courage to jump into the frigid water. In truth, it’s not the water that you fear, what you want to postpone is the initial shock of cold that launches through your body upon first submerging. You know that in a few minutes you will be fine, but oh that dreaded icy shock.

That’s what “putting yourself out there” feels like.

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Don't Ask Me How My Trip Was
Life
Don't Ask Me How My Trip Was
Life

No one tells you that the hardest part of traveling is coming home. After nine months of not being able to drink tap water, and carrying toilet paper in my purse because “you-just-never-know”, I was ready to come home to Canada, to my family and Tim Hortons and a shower I knew would have hot water.

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Life
I Have Nothing
I Have Nothing

I once had a friend who would look knowingly at me during moments of happiness and ask, “How do you feel, Katrina?” I’d smile and always reply, “I feel infinite”. I hope you’ve felt this. It’s the feeling you get when you’re driving on the highway at dusk, night slowly falling, a song on the radio about youth or being in love. You think of nothing ahead or behind but the moment seems to stretch on indefinitely and you let out a little shriek because it feels like your soul is going to burst.

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2016 Didn't Suck, You Did.
Life
2016 Didn't Suck, You Did.
Life

2016 was the worst year ever. At least that’s what I have been told by the internet and countless millennials educated by the prestigious academy of Instagram Meme Accounts. In fact, when I typed “2016 was” into the Google search bar, I was given the options of “a bad year”, “the worst year”, and “a mistake”.

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Life
Dear Toronto
Life
Dear Toronto
Life

 Dear Toronto;

I’m sitting here on my cozy apartment balcony, sipping coffee as I always do, and over-romanticizing things as I usually do. I can’t help but think about how I sat on the balcony of my first apartment overlooking the cityscape three years ago, convinced it was the greatest apartment ever and the most beautiful view I had ever seen.

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Life
“The minds is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”
-John Milton-
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Prof said our Valentine’s Day gift is that we get to begin studying Paradise Lost and honestly, that’s good enough for me 🧡
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful, and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.”
-Mary Oliver-
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Happy Tuesday! Hope you had a reason to smile a full-tooth, squinty eyed smile today 🧡
📷: @alexjiggs
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
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Rocking some new specs from @pixeleyewear 😌
As a writer, student, and all around piece-of-trash-millennial, I tend to spend a lot of time looking at a screen. 
These glasses filter out blue light and eliminate glare to prevent eye strain and headaches! Protect yo eyes kids 🤓 
#ad
“I’m all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.”
-David Gerrold-
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There’s many things that need to be said, but also many ways to say them. Be kind.
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Only when we can stand forehead to forehead with the darkest parts of each other, and lie nose to nose with the most fragile parts of ourselves... then, and only then, will we see change. 
KM
A little late to the #bellletstalk party but let’s remember that the conversation about mental illness should last longer than a day. 
We’ve all got dark and fragile parts, and it breaks me how many people feel alone. It’s one of those topics I actually feel at a loss of words for, except to say:
I’m here. 
I’m here. 
I’m here.
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There’s one problem with having such adventurous and brave friends, and that is that it usually means a lot more goodbyes. 
Not really sure how to deal with this goodbye yet. Maren, my favourite little Aussie, when I carpooled with you over a year ago I never expected to meet a best friend, and role model. You remember things I don’t even remember telling you, you ask the right questions at the right time, and you make people feel like the best version of themselves. 
I can’t wait to see all you accomplish, Vancouver will be waiting for you 🧡
E U N O I A
(Noun) well mind; beautiful thinking. 🌿
Shipping this commissioned word-of-the-day doodle out today to a lovely supporter! If you are interested in purchasing your own unique word-art, please shoot me a dm!
More words, more power 😌
#katswotw #wordoftheweek
The kind of smile only fresh air and friends can bring ☺️
Weekend is here, which means I’m heading out of the city and into the great outdoors again 🍂

 

 
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