Lorig Purutyan

All while the world has been full of shiny objects masked as silver bullets that tell you right now is not very good. Because you are not very good.

But I think right now has always been very good.

my center of gravity doesn’t exist in someone else’s orbit

i believe in everyone’s right to joy and books. we must always have the opportunity to make time for those two things. and if we can’t - because of the systems we live in - we have to ask why

Your ovaries connect to your throat through fascia and the vagus nerve.

When you swallow your words, your pelvic bowl feels it.

This is why singing is medicine for women.

So sing when you cook, sing in the shower,

sing in the car, sing wherever!

And let your womb hear you.

Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.