Lines worth keeping
Takeaways and half-thoughts pulled out of my writing — longer and more considered pieces themselves live on Substack.
Maybe some seasons don't need to transform us; maybe they come around just to pass. So can I hold back from making a fuss, and just stare calmly in the looking glass?
september
I want to begin the beginning, or put an end to the end. But am I ready for the next thing, or will I have to pretend?
september
Everything does not have to matter forever to matter now... There's beauty in walking away from all of it, knowing it was real, without needing to ask, "What is this going to become?"
connection vs continuity
I don't think self-awareness creates sadness. I think it only concentrates it into something that allows us to finally feel for ourselves and our circumstances.
self-awareness
It's surprisingly difficult to distinguish what you want from what you've been taught to want... Eventually, what begins as conditioning starts to feel like a choice. Your choice.
compass rose
We often keep reaching for forgiveness long after we've received it because it's easier to hope that their voice will eventually be loud enough to do the work we're avoiding.
the harder forgiveness
Maybe... the way to truly honor the memory of someone you've lost (is) not by preserving an imagined ideal, but by loving them as the complicated, fallible humans they actually were.
baba