The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.45

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Dear reader,

Here are the visuals, words, poetry, and art so far that stirred my soul for the month of Febuary:

1. 💻 Open this issue in your web browser (not phone) at a time where you have at least 30 mins to read.

2. ☕ Grab hot tea or coffee

3. 👚 Change into something comfortable and ideally sit against some fluffy pillows, with your computer on your lap at a 45 degree angle

4. Light a candle 🕯️

5. 💨 Take 5 breaths and listen to this meditation

6. Meditate on a question you have and run it by this tarot reader

7. 🎵 Press play for music. Listen while you read this issue.

Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Mohammad Shaheen), Like a Hand Tattoo in an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet

“I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.”

— Rosario Castellanos (trans. Magda Bogin), excerpt from “Wailing Wall” from The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos

“I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”

— Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story