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May 2025

Love me back, little self
I don’t ghost myself, not anymore, not this girl (Part 2)
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My low-light reel
A soulful inventory of every “no” that carried me here
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Love Thyself (Eventually)
The years I thought I was cooler without me (Part 1)
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This might be cringe: The sentence I carried with me (Part 2)
Failure hits different when your heart’s in the room.
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April 2025

Dear Serif: The love letter I didn’t mean to write
For the font that holds my heart while I hit delete, and still dares me to press publish.
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Eleni Rizopoulou
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The most useless meat of all: The sentence I carried with me (Part 1)
A meditation on the holy discomfort of letting yourself be seen, a homeless prophet, and other dangerous acts of becoming.
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A love letter to shame: Before it’s beautiful, let it be ugly
How creativity begins, our cone of shame, and a mannequin in a pothole
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Where the Baby Turtle Crawls: Pixar’s Blueprint for Showing Up Unfinished
Pixar’s Creative Lab: What baby steps, bad versions, and brave feedback can teach us about failing forward.
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March 2025

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