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FOLLOW ME FOR MY DISTRACTIONS & INSPIRATIONS
grazing by the beach [Link in bio to read] - I wrote 'The Sacrificial First' after discovering a grave fact: the best chance an orca has of giving birth to a calf who survives is after having a miscarriage. Sitting with sadness, beside my happiness. Daddy passed away six days after my birthday, and every year it is a reminder that life and death are in close partnership. Grief, too, is a living thing. For me, twelve years old today, growing and giving, refilling with hope what it stole of time. On a morning stroll after ages, I savored the quiet streets, doors still shut, and sleepy dogs; a reminder of how peaceful Pondicherry used to be when we visited as children. Just as I ached for the safety of that past, the refuge my father's hometown used to provide, I was gently interrupted with the question, "Are you Kirit's daughter?" And in answering, met an old friend of Daddy's, who must have recognized something of him in me. ✨ "Resist chronology. It will always try to impose itself." Delhi providing us colour, calm and charm amidst the chaos. CW // loss My grandfather's trinkets, which include a smoking pipe from 1913 England, a compass from Uganda, numerous keys to unknown doors in his many homes, and my faded international student ID card. Sunday night drama ⚡
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