125. The End 🏁

Is the lady of the house home? (It’s me, I’m the lady of the house)

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Friends!

It’s the weekend.

And the final Dossier newsletter post from me. It’s been 125 weeks.

Conal Pierse @ConalPierse

You arrive at a gate with two guards. Guard 1: Halt, traveler. You must solve our riddle to continue. Guard 2: ʰᵉʳᵉ ʷᵉ ᵍᵒ G1: ONE of us only tells the truth. The other only tells LIES. G2: jesus christ, Daniel, I said I was sorry.

Thank you for reading along these past 30 odd months 💛

If you’re prone to nostalgia, here’s the first post from May 2020 for you.

1. On Spring

Here’s three things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.

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1. On Choosing Wine 🍷

Usually I choose wine based 99% on how much I love the label (don’t @ me sommeliers reading this) BUT this wine I will choose based on her absolutely brilliant name.

No Man Is An Island, 2014

Made by Mischief & Mayhem

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2. Goodbye 💔

This is beautiful (TW: loss of a pet)

3.15 PM: So many ways to say Goodbye

I MISS YOU SO MUCH ❤️❤️

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3. A Poem 👋🏼

“In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

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Take care of yourselves.

Nicole

xo

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