calm collectedness.

talisman

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —RAY CUMMINGS

he thinks perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.

She drinks in the minutiae, and the more boring the better.

“I think balance is for people who don’t know why they’re here.”

swaths

analgesic

Perhaps memory is fundamental, the thing from which time emerges.