Amelia

“I've tried acupuncture. An old Chinese doctor stuck needles in my skeptical ankle and told me to lie down. The table was hard. I was cold. I fell asleep immediately. When he woke me twenty minutes later, I was astonished. Unfortunately, this extraordinary result had absolutely no impact on my ability to sleep at night. He would have to have come every evening and jabbed needles in my ankle.”
― Marie Darrieussecq, Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

“Any spiritual practice will call our attention to the gap between how we aspire to be and then how we actually are, and what we do with that gap. That gap can be profoundly shaped by the unjust systems in which we’re mired. But I do think it has an ancient core, which brings us back to questions of self-knowledge and aspiration and care.”
― Kae Tempest, On Connection

“cliffto”
― Kazim Ali, Indian Winter

“You still write poetry,’ I say, a current of electricity running through me. ‘I never stopped,’ she says simply. ‘I don’t publish much anymore. I don’t think I want to. The whole scene – it bothers me. I would rather do my political work and teach my classes.’ She looks at me with a questioning look. ‘Does it upset you?”
― Kazim Ali, Indian Winter