Johnny Espitia-Remhild

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“and I will fall into nothingness.”

Arthur Rimbaud , from A Season in Hell

“and I will fall into nothingness.”

With every passing year, life accelerates faster and faster. You watch your parents get older, watch your friends grow up to become themselves, and watch your family start their own families—but mostly from a distance.

There are moments when I think Sunny’s first year went by fast, then I stumble across an old photo or text and my perception of those early months unfolds like an accordion and I’m stunned to recall the depth and variety of experiences I underwent, the majority of which have now been lost to me, and which may be recalled only in bits and pieces ove... See more

Haley Nahman • #229: Living to please your future self

Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination.

Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity

“Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master.”

Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto

Sex is that paradoxical combination of vulnerability and assertion, giving ourselves up and wanting all the more.

James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

“I worship him. When I see him lying naked, I feel like saying mass on his chest.”

- Our Lady of the Flowers , Jean Genet

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Poetry

Lately time has been moving too fast. The places I used to frequent are all closed, my brother grows a head taller every time I see him, all my friends are moving away, doors and empty apartments spinning in their wake. The map of my life is getting larger, choices feel weightier. All the things I vowed to love forever have changed, and I’m changin

in praise of slowing down