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The time of softest intuitions.

I've come to realize that the Witch is arguably the only female archetype that has power on its own terms. She is not defined by anyone else. Wife, sister, mother, virgin, whore — these archetypes draw meaning based on relationships with others. The Witch, however, is a woman who stands entirely on her own. She is more often than not an outsider, and her gift is transformation.

“I try to learn the gold-slow rhythms of afternoons, the thrift of hours from the longer bones of time.”

“A stranger on a bus told me once that it’s easy to forget that all of this is temporary. He said it in the context of rain but I never stopped thinking about it. At our core, we’re a series of temporary moments. Some that last years, others only a second. Exhilarating moments. Devastating moments. Miracle moments. We’re desperate, fleeing creatures never meant to last. And yet, we try. We hold the light close to see if it sticks this time. To see if maybe we are the lucky ones. The ones meant to last forever.”