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HPS operates on the traditional territory and homelands of the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape people in present day Brooklyn, New York, and HPS respects and reveres them as the original custodians of this land.

It’s Brigid’s gotcha day!

I don’t know her age, so we (she and I, lol) celebrate today as her birthday. It was the start of her new life, at least, and she does have some major, major virgo energy.

Named for the Celtic goddess o

Virgo season

Known sources:
1) White Body Fan, Rebecca Horn
3) Villa of Vincenzo De Cotiis
6) Carolyn Carlson by Guy Delahaye
8) Luca Izzo
12) Sometimes by Mary Oliver
14) Paul Kooiker
17) @unavailable.rsrch

Summer has been summering: Enya, wine dates with sisters, teacher heart filled up, upstate weekends, signs from the dragonflies, begrudgingly sending off loved ones to Paris, big cancer heart cracking open and mending again and again, and a lot of da

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