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Vernacular architecture closely reflects the cultural values of the people who build it. Often constructed from the same materials as the landscape in which it exists, it can be found standing on stilts by water, cut into rock, open in hot
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“My older self knows that you must stop—in the middle of the chaos—to take in the world around you. To breathe in deeply, smell the sunscreen and the rubber of the ball, let the breeze blow across your neck, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. In this respect, I love the way the world has aged me.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
― Carrie Soto Is Back
“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can’t quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die.
But that is the mirage.
That is grief’s dizzying spell.
The fall isn’t never-ending. It does have a ground floor.
Today, I cry for so long that I finally feel the floor under my feet. I find the bottom. And while I know the hole will be there forever, at least for now, I feel as if I can live inside it. I have learned its boundaries and its edges.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
But that is the mirage.
That is grief’s dizzying spell.
The fall isn’t never-ending. It does have a ground floor.
Today, I cry for so long that I finally feel the floor under my feet. I find the bottom. And while I know the hole will be there forever, at least for now, I feel as if I can live inside it. I have learned its boundaries and its edges.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
“One of the great injustices of this rigged world we live in is that women are considered to be depleting with age and men are somehow deepening.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
― Carrie Soto Is Back
“Maybe it’s a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you’ll act tomorrow. You don’t have to be consistent. You can change. Just because you want to.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
― Carrie Soto Is Back
“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
― Carrie Soto Is Back
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