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• Smelling as time travel

  I underlined this part in Kaveh Akbar’s book Martyr! about how Orkideh could smell lavender to travel to any other point in his life. I used to walk with a sprig of lavender in my pocket—smelling it, I could go to …

• Soul-learning

  I’ve underlined this part while reading Kaveh Akbar’s book Martyr! where he wrote about how we can pass down information throughout generations but can’t do that for what he calls “soul-learning”; we've always …

• Tea flare

  I am sitting upstairs, transferring my notes from Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!. Summer is approaching and the morning sun is shining into the room. The days have been so gray for a long time. Today, I am happy to sit in …