i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp
Winter is for listening to the same music you were listening to at 15. Unfortunately
Kaveh Akbar, from "An Apology," in Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Seaglass Picnic, Frances Driscoll
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas
East London.
Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012
Wrong Norma, Anne Carson
The Rose, Ariana Reines
2025
you are allowed to have a moment to think before you speak
terrifying sincerity will demand from you the kind of composure and character you are seeking
practice asking yourself questions and answer them without seeking references or resources or answers that others gave
the difference between ritual and routine is faith, and the kind of faith you need to give to your habits—what they each mean to you— is something to be curious, reflective, intentional about. you are afraid that habits will sap your life of meaning, so give them meaning of their own
Lila (divine play)
novelty & magic are rivers, not reservoirs
Heat Map, Richard Siken