Liya Jin
@liyajin
Liya Jin
@liyajin
We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change
psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis wrote in his 1973 field guide to how people change
Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive.
life necessitates contradictions to ever recreate itself.
My body … in constant negotiation with the bodies of the world beyond me, at the shifting edges where my skin bleeds into others
A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes
... See more“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing."
-Rebecca Solnit