I trust you to do what you think is right. That’s how I trust most people.

“What do you all want to get out of this conversation? Actual goals, beyond simply wanting to yell. Yelling is a means, not an end.”

plains-ache is the yearning for an evolutionary ecology you’ve never lived in yourself, the body’s bone-deep knowledge of things that would make it not healthiest but happiest, that would feel right and quiet the anxiety-monkey behind your civilized forebrain. Walking for hours till you can feel it from spine to sole, a picnic with people you’ve kn

People are around you, and you’re part of something.

whenever I reach out I find a new branch that takes me where I need to go. The universe is the same way. If you reach out, you’ll eventually grasp the next branch.

sometimes our perspectives seemed as different as if we came from different species, but we worked through it and came out as family. And the working through had been okay—more than okay, had helped us all learn things from each other that we’d never learned from our childhood families. I thought about that, and about what it took to build that kin