Joseph Crisanti > Recent Status Updates

“the whole point of us meeting was to say goodbye, or rather, just to be side-by-side a farewell of presence of proximity the way men are supposed to do.”

“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act/ to look at something is to fill your whole life with it if only briefly.”

“That was the day I learned how dangerous a color can be. That a boy could be knocked off that shade and made to reckon his trespass. Even if the color is nothing but what the light reveals, that nothing has laws, and a boy on a pink bike must learn, above all else, the law of gravity”

“the hummingbird’s whirring sounds almost like human breath. Its beak jabs into the pool of sugar water at the feeder’s base. What a terrible life, I think, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place.”

“The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past”

“Words are merely signs that can never fully summon what they mean. Yeah, words are all we have, simultaneously bringing us closer, casting us farther away.”

“Your consciousness was like a city and you scavenge and searched for treasured memories of better days. Or maybe memory is more of a fire than a city. It’s uncontrollable, fickle and destructive. “

“A friend would choose knowing rather than being known”

“Friendship rests on the presumption of reciprocity, of drifting in and out of one another’s lives, with occasional moments of wild intensity”

“Sometimes you can use what you know, but that’s not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it’s any use, but purely for the pleasure of knowing”

“He who has many friends has no friend”

“Friendship is the willingness to know, rather than to be known”

Like it so far

Meh. Decent stories from varying authors but the Covid talk between them was drolling. Didn’t have time or motive to finish