when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”

when Joan Didion, on using her fine china for everyday meals, said “because today is all there is.”

I am done with ADHD. From now on I will only be HD. My resolution is crisp as fuck these days, you have no idea. Look at my pores, boy.

bruce springsteen opened a concert last night calling trump corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous. that’s right sweetie he’s not for YOU and neither is “born in the usa” and it never has been x

Reminder that Luigi Mangione is an innocent man, and an entirely different person from The Claims Adjuster (the guy who actually killed CEO Brian Thompson)