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On D-Day, Agust D walks a path toward growth, healing, and peace

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D-Day album cover. Big Hit Music.

This article was written as a contribution to Bangtan Library. 

Released on April 23, 2023, Agust D’s D-Day represents the end of a trilogy that started in 2016 with the release of Agust D, Min Yoongi’s first mixtape under his alternate artistic persona Agust D. The two mixtapes offered a window into Agust D’s most personal thoughts and experiences, expanding on the themes and lyrics he had contributed to BTS’s discography under his main moniker, SUGA of BTS.

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Spring

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You may think that because Canada is a northern country of long and harsh winters, our smells are only of cold, frozen earth, snow, and ice. Or maybe what comes to mind are the bland smells of a clean, safe city: the smell of a coffee shop here, the concrete mix of new construction there, the pot from your neighbours’ balcony as soon as it’s warm enough to open your living room windows.

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The Measure of My Powers – A Memoir by Jackie Kai Ellis

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I sincerely believe in dedicating time to the things we love; it’s the name of this blog and the life philosophy I credit with giving me a second chance at a happy life. There is no “getting over it,” “you are too old for this,” and especially, “you are a mom, so you should not be doing x or y…” Motherhood, on the contrary, was one of the catalysts of my decision to not only never abandon the things I was passionate about—music, movies, reading, writing—but to pass these passions along to my son as the most beautiful gifts of being alive.

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A Healing Mind, a Healing Heart

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I once wrote, without really believing it, that perhaps laughter is finite. I was once the chubby kid who danced in the middle of the kitchen to make her parents laugh. But I had forgotten what deep, carefree laughter sounded like, and for a while, it felt like I had used mine all up.

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