Sam

“If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“it's okay

old is fine

I'm old because I"m not dead”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.

But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic