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When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.

You tell him: “I'm afraid

I'm going to hurt myself.”

He says: “Let me.”

—Red Rauque, (You Let Him)

(2024-04-21)

“A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore. According to folklore, a changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. In folklore, changelings symbolize fear of the unknown, anxieties about child development, and societal

(2019-02-13)

The expression "finding oneself" is misleading. It's like dropping somebody off in the middle of a forest and saying "find the forest".

It's not so much about finding as it is about situating. You find out what the world and you are made of and you situate yourself in relation to all of it.

Hand it to me.
Your wound and its colony, your pain, your disease.
Feed it to me,
like a bird, a cuckoo, a vulture, a bloodthirsty creature.
Give it no name,
that's all mine to do; I'll name it and get attached too.
Bring me your sins
i'll make an altar to your cancerous offerings, burn them with the candle.
I am your daughter, your doctor, your priest.
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moledro n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you'll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.