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Manifesting:

• Unpanicked hospitality

• Confident humility

• Fulfilling diligence

• Curious and complete rest

It's jarring to realize how highly I value beauty as relative to worth, both my own and others'. Reductive, disappointing, enlightening?

Months later, I begin reading The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, which touts the merit of beauty above all - at least I'm not alone in my vanity (or should I rephrase to "my perspective"?).