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The people who wound us get no say in how we clean up the blood.
How can it ever be a weakness to simply be yourself?
-Love in the Big City
some of my most excruciatingly lonely times have been in relationships where I feel unheard, uncherished, unappreciated. You can be lonely in a roomful of people.
Catherine Gray • The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
Echoes of a life I never lived.
As poet Brandon Wint wrote in a much-quoted social media post several years ago, “Not queer like gay; queer like escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness all at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like, and to pursue it.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
I often got called “an old soul” and such like by adults when I was a child. I think this was a kind way of saying I was a sad little freak.
-atlanticesque
Making art is hard. There is no cheat code that would make it easy. Excavating the soul should be hard. It would be alarming if it wasn’t. The satisfaction you feel however, when you see the words trooping along the page exactly as you dreamed them up, melodic and honest, it is heaven made real. You are not an artist if you are so adverse to risk
... See morewhen death
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime
-commitment