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Zahra's avatar

This captured the haunting beauty of our existential loneliness so well. Thank you ♥️

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

Thank you for sparing your time reading it ❤️

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Mei's avatar

This was so beautifully written. it felt like i was there with you on your vacation. my deepest condolences for your loss ❤️‍🩹

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

Thank you for coming along ❤️

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Ning's avatar

I felt both the sense of roaming free and spiralling deep reading this. Love the voice and strong sense of place, how it gets at something so deeply internal.

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

That’s the exact space of deep knowing and experience I wrote this from. It makes me happy to know that you sensed it in my words. Thank you for finding this. 💜

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Holly Starley's avatar

“Each one of us is home to such suspicious polarities. Joy and sorrow are always dancing together in our inner worlds.” Beautiful, my friend. And true.

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

Thank you Holly. I read about Ruby. I hope you are moving on. ❤️

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

That was, as always so beautifully written, a warm and poetic trip into a cold and isolating place, loneliness I mean, not Shillong :) Sorry about you cat, life eh, so chummy with death, what to do? Thanks for the words Swarnali

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

Thank you Jonathan. I guess a major part of living is just effortless agreement with sorrow and accepting it as we accept our morning tea/coffee. Thank you for always reading my words ❤️

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

That’s the goal, although the effortless part is the problem ;)

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

Yes, I guess we need to practice till the effort becomes obsolete

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

That was as always so beautifully written, a poetic warm trip into a cold and isolating place, loneliness, not

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John Lovie's avatar

Thank you, Swarna, for taking us with you to Shillong. You are not alone!

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

So sweet. Thank you John for coming along ❤️

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