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Bulgari jewelry 

When I’m up on this rooftop, looking at our city from above; seeing it so far yet so close as the future seems unreachable, I still see those glimmers of what it was before, and this keeps me going. I was reading my book, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and this passage stood out to me because it in some way represented how I feel about holding onto the things in the world that can normally feel fleeting, and how this can give us hope: 

“As time passed and the sky came increasingly under the sway of the bright morning sun of summer, one star at a time would obliterate itself from my field of view. They did this with the utmost gentleness, and I studied the process of obliteration with wide-open eyes. The summer sun did not, however, erase every star from the sky. A few of the strongest ones remained. No matter how high the sun climbed, they took a stubborn stance and refused to disappear. This made me happy:  aside from the occasional cloud that drifted by, the stars were the only things I could see from down there.”