the olive bookshelf
by Ollie Burgessin 📚 Literature
the olive bookshelf
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I want to learn how to read until the music of the words flies past the annotations and into my bones.
About Ollie Burgess
🧸 wordsmith behind miscellany by ollie. | grad student + piano teacher. | reading St. Augustine + Kierkegaard + Spenser. | listening to Needtobreathe + Rachmaninoff. | & may God preserve in us both the angelic and the mammalian. |
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