I am grateful for your strange mind which so uniquely filters existence—at first it was difficult for me to interact with because I felt pressure to match your cool poetic manner, but I’ve subsequently realized that nobody could, so my job is simply to appreciate you, and this has been an upgrade to our dynamic.
I am grateful for your strange mind which so uniquely filters existence—at first it was difficult for me to interact with because I felt pressure to match your cool poetic manner, but I’ve subsequently realized that nobody could, so my job is simply to appreciate you, and this has been an upgrade to our dynamic.
I admire so much that despite your insane life circumstances, you remain chill and humble and curious, many of the wealthy and powerful people I’ve met are just fucking weird in a way that you’re not even a little bit.
Sasha Chapin • An open letter to 56 people I know
“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
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The world would crumble completely absent the quiet, unshowy, unselfish, sustained kindness of people like you.
Sasha Chapin • An open letter to 56 people I know
You completely broke my model of what it’s possible for a person to do—it’s one thing to read accounts of the powers of mystics, it’s another to have one directly operate on your consciousness.
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to b... See more