Lauren Jensen

"I believe if there's any kind of god it wouldn't be in any of us... but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something".

The Tempest

Everything was calm. The sun was shining.

I was swimming in the deep. And then, when I surfaced twenty years later, I discovered there was a storm, a whirlpool, a blasting gale lifting the waves over my head. At first I wasn't sure I'd make it back to the boat and then I realized I didn't want to make it back to the boat. Chaos is

you can never really be trapped if you know that youve chewed your own leg off and left it in the cage before

"On a rare night, I'll go dancing in wintertime.

This is not the hedonistic, sweat glistening dancing of summer where the crowd writhes in life. This is a dark, sweet desperation to be near people. Coats are shed, people are stiff when they begin. Bodies that haven't moved freely in months take a few moments to work warmth back into their bones.

no, I don't believe in good and bad people.

The definition for myself for a long time is, are you trying?

Are you trying to be kind? Are you trying to be generous? Are you trying to make the world more beautiful?

And I say trying because I have experiences of times in my life where I've tried to be kind and I couldn't be.

-Anne Gibson