what if I just decided to live without shame. what then
Look at this I found. A stick with a hook. What could you use it for, I wonder?
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh
— Maya Angelou, “Starvation” from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, (1483-1520), Raphael Madonna of the Pinks Ca. 1506–7 - Detail
Tania Qurashi - Moon, Iris, and Vessel, 2022
Tania Qurashi (American, 1993)
Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall.
since you told me about your dream i have been having more dreams of my own… vivid & strange… i can almost feel you there.
every social interaction i initiate feels like i’ve violated like 15 untold rules
sometimes i think about how constellations are an entirely man-made construct and don’t actually exhist inherently in nature. i mean, the universe just gave us stars, and we saw art and myths and stories in them. the capacity that humans have for seeing purpose in the incidental makes me realize just how lonely we are on this planet, desperately searching for meaning elsewhere in the universe.
Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall.
