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“In that night’s dream Etta was swimming or dancing, she couldn’t decide which, but it didn’t matter because they were, really, the same thing, only in swimming the water is your partner, all around, ready, following, light and easy and heavy and comforting and there in your arms and you in its arms”

We’re all scared, most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren’t. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it.

I feel the thinness of me, the littleness of me, and the vastness and the weirdness of me. I become the darkness all around, I become the night. Tomorrow I will be different, and I will be the day.

Desde que salimos de casa
No dejamos de cantar.
Dice mi papá
Que si cantamos,
Espantamos el cansancio
y el miedo
y nos volvemos canción.

Mi mami me abraza y me dice:
Estos no es un sueño.
Estás en mis brazos.
Estás en Los Ángeles.
Eres un campeón.

“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”

“Still a blessed thing to be alive, to be a thing with a mind and a memory and the five human senses to drink it all in.

No matter what limitations life imposes on us - for example, having to make a home in a whole in the ground - it still cannot be lived thoughtlessly.

“When all you can hear is the faint sound of your own breath, when nothing can fill the void of the enormity before you, all you can do is sing. To sing is to expand your presence; to occupy the vast silence with your voice. “