Creative Living

the longing for depth collides with the fear of public embarrassment, producing a generation that craves tenderness but trains itself to appear nonchalant.

MY POINT IS this: You must go. You must leave your state of potential behind. You must go somewhere over the rainbow. Dreaming about it from “Kansas” feels good, but the drug of potential isn’t good for you. It feels good to want, dream, and yearn. In a way, it feels just as good as getting what you want, dream, and yearn for. The same way you can... See more

whenever feeling grows too intense, state, church, or family rush in to discipline it, proof that Romanticism has always threatened any order built on obedience and efficiency.

To linger over a face, to let a single moment swell until it feels unmeasured, is a small act of disobedience in a culture that prizes momentum over meaning.

But back to me.