With Eyes Wide Open and Trembling Hands

"What matters is not how long we live, but how intensely we feel that life is a gift we repay by giving to others."

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that and living alone won't either for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to live. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart, you are here to be swallowed up, and when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

It's wild to me to see that "cohousing" is becoming a trendy, anti-establishmentary thing to do, like "omg you *don't* need to be married to live together, it's so beneficial and supportive and radical to live with other people without being married and you can do it too!"

Annual reminder of what I look like. This shirt is lyfe.

I like, really love this cat.

Look frens, I cut the hairs