Emma K

“Today, I slept in until 10,
Cleaned every dish I own,
Fought with the bank,
Took care of paperwork.
You and I might have different definitions of adulthood.
I don’t work for salary, I didn’t graduate from college,
But I don’t speak for others anymore,
And I don’t regret anything I can’t genuinely apologize for.
And my mother is proud of me.
I burnt down a house of depression,
I painted over murals of greyscale,
And it was hard to rewrite my life into one I wanted to live
But today, I want to live.
I didn’t salivate over sharp knives,
Or envy the boy who tossed himself off the Brooklyn bridge.
I just cleaned my bathroom,
did the laundry,
called my brother.
Told him, “it was a good day.”
― Kait Rokowski

“一天靠劳力工作两、三个小时，在当时足足可以赚到最低生活费，事实上还是劳动的好方式，除了活动身体外，还可以打破孤寂的感觉。”
― 黄仁宇, 黄河青山：黄仁宇回忆录

“政治基于心理，心理基于物理，物理基于几何。”
― 黄仁宇

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984