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on love and creativity
Grief and Praise are renters whose landlord is Love. • Because they are best friends, both Grief and Praise live together in the same building, but in opposing quarters: in the left and right chambers of Love’s great thumping house called the Heart.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
First you learn the rules, then you transcend them. People sometimes therefore conclude that learning the rules is a mistake. But the rules are not a distraction from the true art, they are a path that leads you to it.
Emmett Shearx.comRemembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
“Regret is an interesting concept. Often, it involves retroactively considering a decision we made under one set of circumstances and judging it unfairly by our current ones.”
queer not as in being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as in being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live
— bell hooks
Missed Connections (in Dreamland)
... See moreIn early August, I dreamt of us coming home together late at night. We might’ve been a little drunk or a little stoned, sharing a playful and flirty energy as we walked.
I didn’t recognize the place where we arrived, but it felt like yours. The way we laughed and talked felt so natural, and what we did, I’ll say, was
When we all have our needs met, our potential for growth, authenticity, and fulfillment becomes infinitely more accessible.
Needs met based on equity. Energy exchange, earnest.
There is no need for competition. We all get to thrive and be recognized.
— excerpt from my journal 07-01-2025