Sean Thielen-Esparza

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

The type of person I’m assuming we’re looking for here is 1) someone that you will find fascinating to talk to after you’ve talked for 20,000 hours, 2) you feel comfortable with them talking through the hardest and most painful decisions you will face in your life, and 3) the conversation is wildly generative for both of you, in that it brings you

And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring.

Lóri put on perfume and this was one of her imitations of the world, she who was trying so hard to learn life