“I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.”
— Fernando Pessoa
Category: Commonplace
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Passing
“We’re all of us passing for something or other. Aren’t we?”
Parched and Barren
“If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.”
— John O’Donohue, Anam Ċara (via Erica Avey)
Sounds no. 106
The First Frosts
Back on My Bullshit
Back on my bullshit, I was down bad
They was kickin’ me when I was on my ass
Now I’m back on my bullshit, every day, I grow
Meditatin’ on the bluff when I’m low
Said I’m back on my bullshit, dealin’ with the shame
Let it go and told the devil get away
Now I’m back on my bullshit, glad I made it home
I was low but you know I never fold, bitch, yeah
Love and Justice
“Justice between people is perhaps the most important connection people can have.”
“There can be no love without justice.”
Sounds no. 62
A Clear Definition
“Had I been given a clear definition of love earlier in my life it would not have taken me so long to become a more loving person. Had I shared with others a common understanding of what it means to love it would have been easier to create love.”
Miserable in Love
“Before you become miserable in love, remember: not every beautiful thing is meant for you. Sometimes the grown-up thing to do is ooh & ahh & walk away.”
— Claudia Dawson, “Every beautiful thing“
Lisa Marie Blair 