Youre Gonna Grow Up And Realize Just How Much More Lightheartedness You Need In Life

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

— Frank Tyger

Kaveh Akbar

Robert Wood Lynn, “Bringing a Gun to Chekhov’s House”

Love Prodigal, Traci Brimhall

Miguel Hernández, from The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez "Elegy for Ramón Sijé,"

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

Life, and Nothing More… (1992), dir. Abbas Kiarostami