carry on my wayward gal pal

Good Girl

“The Italian philosopher Vico had this theory that time moves more in a spiral than it does in a line. He believes that’s why we repeat ourselves, including our tragedies, and that if we are more faithful to this movement, we can move away from the epicenter through distance and time, but we have to confront it every time. I’ve been thinking about trauma—how it’s repetitive, and how we recreate it, and how memory is fashioned by creation. Every time we remember, we create new neurons, which is why memory is so unreliable. I thought, “Well if the Greek root for ‘poet’ is ‘creator,’ then to remember is to create, and, therefore, to remember is to be a poet.” I thought it was so neat. Everyone’s a poet, as long as they remember.”

“what motivates you?”

“When people think of mental health, the brief net of perception is still generally only cast wide enough to sieve conflicts and dissonance that are more singular and personalized in nature as opposed to accounting for the inseparable Gordian knots tied at intersections of class, caste, gender, race, inter-generational trauma, social imagination, financial location among others.”

aang: the fire lord may be a monster who’s trying to destroy the world, but he still deserves to live!