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How to Be a Brick

Sometimes you're heavy, rigid, sad, tired. Let it be.

Heather Havrilesky
Jun 23, 2021
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A Street (1926) by Georgia O’Keeffe

There will be days when you don’t feel grateful or exuberant. You feel heavy. You’ll go looking for something to lift you up, and everything will drag you down instead. Sometimes that feels like the default sensation of being online too much: You return to an empty well. There is nothing there for you. You want somethi…

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