Cyrus Chen

The songs carry Accra’s coastal spirit—warm, unforced and easygoing, the magnetic looseness of Khruangbin and the unhurried flow of Mulatu Astatke.

The biggest step nobody talks about with writing is surrendering to the person you actually are and realizing it is the material you are required to work with; it is humiliating and relaxing, and you have to go through it over and over again

You're not weird for struggling w/ phone calls. Many trauma survivors experience a very specific spike of anxiety around making (or receiving, for that matter) calls-- & many keep our reactions under wraps, because we're not "supposed" to be triggered by something so "normal."