HELLO NOVEMBER

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I'm in a very strange position right now. I feel like I need to find out who I am, but for the first time, I also feel like I'm dangerously close to it. I want to use November for me: I want to learn from others and be inspired by the whole world. I want woods and skyscrapers and I want to become someone I'm obsessed with. I know this is not gonna happen overnight, but I want to make an effort this month to reflect on who I am and who I want to be, and what to do in order to make things happen. I may be wrong, but I feel so close I can almost taste it, and it's damn exciting.


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I've started reading this book a couple weeks ago and I've been sucked into it ever since. Not That Kind Of Girl is a record of essays by Lena Dunham which tells in a funny and unfiltered way her story. I still haven't finished the first section of the book but I weirdly already feel empowered by it. I think the reason is that she's had a dramatically normal life, with the very though times we tend to ignore as 'there is worse', but still she managed to convert all of this ordinary crap into art, being one of the most influential and successful 25 years old on the planet. I don't think a book has ever made me reflect on my life in this way before and I highly recommend it, though I'm not 100% sure why.

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Are you tired of me talking about 1989 yet? Well, I know this is gonna be my jam for the next two years so sorry for that. Anyway, other than being amazed by the songs and the lyrical and musical genius that is Taylor Swift (My top 4 picks are Style, Blank Space, Wildest Dreams and Clean) I've been touched especially by the poem she hid in her secret messages. The last line read 'She lost him but she found herself, and somehow that was everything' with the last word written in italic at the end of the booklet, not hidden in a song like the others.  everything.   I teared up when I saw it, probably because I'm so sensitive about this topic right now, but I swear that little word touched something deep inside me I didn't even know I had.

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This was the video that actually inspired this theme. I didn't know I needed it but I did. I love the photography, I love the concept, I love how even touching such a beautiful and delicate topic Troye manages to stay funny and careless. This has everything, from body positivity to platform shoes to sincere and well thought considerations spelled in such a clean and simple way I want them to be inked on my skin forever. Again, as everything else in This Month post, I don't know why I love it so much, I just do.

Still thirsty for some body positiviTea? Check out Tyler's video.

Before I let you go wishing you a good month, I just want to address how all of this things just casually fell into place and how I genuinely love not only their substance, but also the way it is presented. I adore the graphic and the marketing and the way each of the things on this page was made. I'm just struck by a utter sense of admiration and inspiration, realizing that it is actually possible to create something that's stimulating in every way: not just in what it is, but also in how it is delivered, and I just want to say I hope one day I'll be able to make something like this and be proud of it and remember all these incredible people who inspired me once, and I hope will continue for years to come.
hope you'll have a wonderful November!

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