The Inherent Pain Of Wanting To Start Again But Also The Inherent Joy Of Getting To Start Again

“We’re so often told that art can’t really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living. Don’t you want it, to be impregnate with all that light? And what will happen if you are?”

– Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

when gregory alan isakov said, “honey, I’m just trying to find my way to you,”

in an ideal world this is what i would look like:

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

Cyril Edward Power, The Vortex, 1929

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