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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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2022 is abt peace love and forgiveness idk it’s literally the moment life becomes simpler things move smoothly and beautifully. Calm vibes easy easy vibes. Huge surprises all positive, the negativity that will emerge will not be faced with an unprepared audience & the response to this negativity will be efficient and the healing will be non traumatic. I also feel like it’s the year of getting along w people you never thought you’d get along with.
Pulling over to pick mustard flower at sunset along the PCH, 16” x 20”, 2021
handwoven by Alexandra Jean Auger in Los Angeles, CA
it’s all good by boogie. bushwick, bed-stuy + qb. 2006
berlant: how do we reinhabit fantasy concretely, in a social body, given the politically, socially, and imaginatively cramped world that creates an abyssal nonmediation between the fantasy of being somebody and an ordinary life? … averse to conventionality, but relieved of singularity through it too, sometimes it is all a girl can do to show you a once beautiful shape, a failed conventional form, or an instance of tinny courage that can gesture toward the broken utopian while making you feel the optimism of having an infinite number of second chances at it
(thank you)
“We aim. We miss. We live in the gaps between our intentions and the shit that doesn’t work out. So many emotions caught in my pipe. I pound my chest to putter it out. The machinations. Glittery enunciation. The first time I heard the sound of your voice it filled me with a sense of future perfect. The friendship I will have had. Getting to know you. Sounding without thinking. Walking. Just walking and heart beating. Out of synch, but in time.”
— Fred Moten & Wu Tsang, Who Touched Me?
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When it was Possible to Concentrate, The World Felt like A Perpetually Unfolding Miracle
To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.
artist: angela mckay
You don’t have to be a couple to participate in the couple form. In fact there is nothing else to do
“You don’t have to be a couple to participate in the couple form. In fact there is nothing else to do. I fused myself into that couple as fast as I could, because it seemed like the most radiant form of life, because I thought that by being a couple I could get a break from being myself.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2020/01/by-heart-garth-greenwell-frank-bidart/604933/
“So what can we really do for each other except—just love each other and be each other’s witness? And haven’t we got the right to hope—for more? So that we can really stretch into whoever we really are? Don’t you think so?”
— James Baldwin, from Another Country (Dial Press, 1962)
while totally counter to several of my longest held beliefs, spiralling, for me, actually looks like close-reading deleuze, big sentimentality, and deep editing of speech and words
thinking about this all saturday after a morning spent on the couch devouring @mashatupitsyn‘s pdf, w/ feelings not dissimilar from the 2013 read, except this time, aside from everything else that is different i’m also in Toronto on my couch, horizontally, with many blankets.
and thinking about this today as i stare down open tabs and a daunting desire for better chances. which is the feeling of wanting the odds (of what? of “it all”) to be better by doing what i can to rig my own shot. not a success or totality. no gantt charts toward a defined end goal. just a better shot at something. a poise for readiness.
http://penny-ante.net/title/like-someone-in-love/
ask polly
Int: What are you now? Baldwin: I’m trying to become a human being. Int: And when does one know when one’s reached that stage? Baldwin: I don’t think you ever do. You work at it, you know. You take it as it comes. You try not to tell too many lies. You try to love other people and hope that you’ll be loved.
— James Baldwin, from an interview featured in Conversations with James Baldwin
love lives at the kitchen table
that’s love babey!
