lightness

These women, many of them girls, found that in running away from their mothers, they had become them. We love to live in memory. We love the lightness with which we can slip into who we were.

“If this is the best that civilization can do for the human, then give us howling and naked savagery. Far better to be a people of the wilderness and desert, of cave and the squatting-place, than to be a people of the machine and the Abyss.”

the discomfort will shift to stillness. and that stillness? it’s expansive

In fact, I would say that coincidences are the defining feature of stories, which exist to connect people or events in our minds.

It’s literally in the word: the concurrence of incidents.

According to Todd Pezzuti, Caleb Warren and Jinjie Chen in their study Cool People , the earliest roots of cool lie in the African diaspora, in West African ideas like itutu (Yoruba for “coolness”), which refers to a state of spiritual composure and grace under pressure. Confronting the brutal realities of slavery and Jim Crow, African Americans... See more