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jess DLP

full cycle foam roll

2023 was the year of a million hearts beating and breaking all at once. I heard it in the scurried scratch of pen across paper as half...

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from a faltering christian

I think I do more reflecting than the average 24 year old, so doing a “year in review” feels gratuitous, but I can be as creative as a...

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cassie

I bought a car-- my first real adult purchase, with my own car insurance (that I pay an arm and a leg for, because I am a young...

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22 + 1

Realizing I’m turning 23 this year feels like waking up from an evening nap, when the sun has already gone down, and you’re not sure what...

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bananas and some ruminations on love

My friend told me once that with 8 billion hearts alive, breaking, healing, beating all at once, how is every story not a love story?...

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crowns, pt 1

When I was younger, 22 was always “the age.” At 22, I would be a college graduate, have a job lined up, move out of my parents’ house, be...

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warm fuzzies

The highest tide I have ever seen was 1:05am on a Thursday night in the middle of December. Waves crashed over and above and around me,...

uninformed and underrepresented at stanford university

jess DLP

some young adult thoughts

uninformed and underrepresented at stanford university

**Disclaimer: I am not Native American. I am not part of the most underrepresented and disproportionately traumatized people groups. I...

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anniversary special

have let walk away. To the ones I have yet to meet and whom I have yet to learn about and be with. And to my friends now. My boiling...

feel good reads

look at her! she's going to be okay!

bananas and some ruminations on love

feel good reads

Dec 28, 2020

warm fuzzies

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Dec 19, 2019

smells and stuff

feel good reads

Jun 23, 2019

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should take you like 45sec - 2min

Sep 24, 2020

quick reads

commercial break

Jun 8, 2020

quick reads

black tiles end racism

May 27, 2018

religious-y things

easter

Mar 29, 2018

feel good reads

cotton candy skies

Jan 1, 2018

feel good reads

crayola crayons

religious-y things

have you met my main man Jesus?

from a faltering christian

Jan 2, 2023

fruit

Feb 24, 2020

beasts and castles

Dec 26, 2019

1/2

young adult thoughts

learning what it means to be 20-something

Jan 2, 2023

from a faltering christian

Nov 10, 2022

cassie

Jan 25, 2022

“a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light”

Mar 6, 2021

22 + 1

Jan 12, 2020

stanford stupid, part 1

Dec 19, 2019

bruh

Oct 27, 2019

uninformed and underrepresented at stanford university

Oct 5, 2019

marked safe

Nov 2, 2018

walking between

May 26, 2018

on letters to incarcerated people

May 29, 2016

an homage to high school

Mar 7, 2016

missing the music

Nov 10, 2022

some young adult thoughts

cassie

I bought a car-- my first real adult purchase, with my own car insurance (that I pay an arm and a leg for, because I am a young...

Sep 14, 2019

raw

busog

Passing the plate Surfing the Hawaiian coast has been on my bucket list since before I knew how to surf. I’ve dreamed of biking from...

Aug 13, 2018

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anniversary special

have let walk away. To the ones I have yet to meet and whom I have yet to learn about and be with. And to my friends now. My boiling...

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trigger warnings: ED, suicide, mental health. lots of post-processing thoughts