on life
My dad always talks about life as if you’re cooking food: All the flames on your stovetop have to be on and everything has to be cooking. Because if not, if your love life goes out, you’re fucked. If your family life or your business life or your music life goes out, you’re fucked. So it’s really trying to play this balancing game, and that’s kind... See more
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So for me, if you didn’t have a patch with some band that I liked on it, or if you didn’t have some of the markings of an outsider, I didn’t feel welcome. I never felt welcome. But we’re all human, and I think there are [more] things that we can relate to than things we don’t.
In Conversation: Justice Tripp of Angel Du$t
For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavours bring us closest to that fullness.
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away from those erotic guides from within ourselves, then our lives are limited by external and alien forms, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human need, let alone an... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Of course, what you want will change over time. Who you think you are will change, too. Being able to periodically ask yourself these questions—What makes me feel alive today? What do I desire at this moment?—is the only way to stay updated with yourself as a being who evolves. Each new desire represents the next step on your unique path.
Kasia Urbaniak • Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power
But there’s absolutely no reason that asking for the wrong thing should be where the asking ends. That’s just information: you use what you’ve learned about yourself and the shape of your desire to make another Ask.
Kasia Urbaniak • Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power
I’m the guy who really feels that identifying as a musician is ultimately a pitiful thing. You might be inclined to do it. You might fill it out on your tax forms, or if you’re at a dinner party, maybe it’s the quickest way out of a conversation. But I think you need to identify more strongly with your relationships to the people you love.... See more
In Conversation: Patrick Kindlon of Drug Church
All of my violences might be seen this way: a descent, a rise, a sowing. If we sow them, every sacrifice becomes a harvest.
Melissa Febos • Girlhood
In Chinese medicine, stagnation is the cause of all illness. The yin/yang symbol—the circle with the swervy line separating the light and the dark?—is a representation of a wheel in motion. Life must move.