Status Updates From The Chronology of Water

Strange

“He treated this thing I'd done - this DUI - the dead baby - the failed marriages - the rehab - the little scars at my collar bone-my vodka - my scarred as shit past and body- as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.”

“With Virginia Woolf there will perhaps be a long walk in a garden or along a shore, perhaps a walk that will last all day. She will put her arm in yours and gaze out. At your backs will be history. In front of you, just the ordinary day, which is of course your entire life. Like language. The small backs of words.
Stretching out horizonless.”

“Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.
If I could go back, I'd coach myself. I'd be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I'd be the woman who says, your mind, you imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us.”