Liya Jin
@liyajin
Liya Jin
@liyajin
My body … in constant negotiation with the bodies of the world beyond me, at the shifting edges where my skin bleeds into others
even now, fresh tears make my vision waltz, with loving grief
Solnit poignantly describes: “We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or hate, to see or be seen. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear
... See more“The trouble with human happiness is that it is constantly beset by fear,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her incisive Augustine-lensed meditation on love and loss, and nowhere is our happiness more beset by fear than in our fear of change.