The most productive years of my life so far have also been my loneliest. I don’t know if the loneliness was a requisite for this, but I also don’t have any productive years where I haven’t been lonely to compare this to. Even knowing that “most productive” should not be the goal of my years to begin with, I have still learned to be more comfortable
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I was this child. You know what it taught me?
Doing well and being good gets you punished.
alexandriabrownx.comBut how to explain this to Destiny? How to explain to Destiny that the thing that made her work leap forward in 1996 was that she had been a dervish of selfishness, resentment, and insecurity? Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people.