i am a prototype
a practice of being a work-in-progress person
i am a prototype
you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
I am porous to the world, a kind of joyful sponge for the affectations and interests of the people I love. It has been the work of my life to build slightly firmer boundaries around myself so that I can figure out where I end and the people I love begin.
Christina Joyce Hauser • The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Walking through your own corridors of emotions, so that one day you can hold the hand of someone else as they walk through their own.
A person who doesn’t make mistakes usually doesn’t make anything.
(attributed to Mr. Phelps)
I became an archaeologist of my soul. It’s hard manual labour. It commands you to be gentle in your excavation. It asks you to investigate with curiosity and remain hopeful when it seems like all you’re digging up is more fucking dirt. There is so much power in that dirt though. Shifting it out of the way, clearing that space; eventually, it reveal
... See more“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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artist Carissa Potter
We get stuck in a holding pattern when we believe there’s only one path, or two, instead of those millions of paths that fork and diverge based on our individual strengths and characters. In some worlds you’re happy and curious and feed the parts that make you fully and idiosyncratically yourself. The parts that seek beauty and truth and goodness a
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