Too Smart For This.

Too Smart For This.

Still hungry

From ravenous ambition to magnetic becoming

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Alexis Barber
Jan 21, 2026
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I’ve been bitterly softening into someone who can welcome the grief of getting older without immediately succumbing to the urgency it awakens.

I’ve always been in a rush. Out of the house I was born into, back from the grocery store faster, towards a graduation. Whenever I reminisce, my instinct is never to reflect on what’s been built — it’s to inventor…

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