Sublime

For a long time, I cherished my ability to conceal my trouble. Later on, my brother’s inability to hide his own seemed a much more valuable gift.

Like Sappho, she pursues love as an “absolute emptiness which is also absolute fullness.”

Moderation is key

People are living into identities that aren’t accepted or even recognized by society at large. Their insistence on self-definition creates space for all of us to be more self-determined.

Our sons and daughters are still being shamed out of their full humanity before they even get dressed in the morning.

I only wanted to know where I ended and everything else began, and I still do, in these oceanic days.

efforts to be both their unique selves and to find a community.

We are a culture of aching, maladjusted humans doing everything in our power to show the world we are not.