hayley > Recent Status Updates

“i’ve had more than my share of magic in life, most often in the encounter with others. there is something there, and only there. i can’t be more specific than that, can only say that if we’re searching we should look in each other, that a pair of eyes are another’s sideways colon into something, or out of something”

pages-long paragraphs are not for me

“spring was giving way to summer. ... a familiar itch was creeping in. that aching toward something wild — when the days get longer and a walk ... becomes entirely pleasant from morning to night, when you want to ... fling all responsibility to the wayside. but for the first time it felt like an impulse i needed to turn away from. ... no more summer vacations for me, no more idle days. i needed to accept ... change"

i always love a reminder that eleanor roosevelt was (probably) a wlw

"no one chooses the right symbolic occasion; one takes what's available"

“the right of its citizens to be different and not to conform, without being placed thereby in a status of inferiority or disadvantage, has always been the glory of [the united states]. ... no society can be truly great which excludes from full participation and contribution, or relegates to a secondary role, any ... of its citizenry"

we need to bring back lgbtqia2s+ social clubs