i am a prototype
a practice of being a work-in-progress person
i am a prototype
“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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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.
if you don’t live the way you believe, you inevitably believe the way you live.
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
Today Is My 32nd Birthday
My difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
Virgina Woolf
... See moreNo one can love you enough. Build a shelter for the flies and the wasps instead. Make houses for the rats and the owls and the bluebirds. Sit for hours in the shade and watch how these tiny citizens move, floating or drifting or scrabbling over stones, swooping or creeping in rings of shadow, rings of light. Make space inside your liquid heart for
