i want the journey to be long and strange

lucky

time will change you and how you fit into the world – what you want and how you define yourself, or not. it is so open-ended, always evolving, and I wish I could alleviate the pressure my younger self felt to find herself in this big world with so many possibilities for who she could become. sometimes things just need to take their course. sometimes you just need to take a deep breath and trust that what will happen will happen and there's time to figure things out, because it is not possible to completely control the direction of your life, and nothing – not your state of mind, nor your stage of life – is final.

Kyoto

Watercolour, gouache on thick white wove paper , 56.0 x 76.6 cm.

miriam adeney

Tom Hennen, "Love for Other Things", Darkness Sticks to Everything

Eileen Myles, from “Whax ‘N Wayne,” in I Must Be Living Twice

Jeanette Winterson, All I Know About Gertrude Stein

this obliterated me

Antigonick, Anne Carson

Punishment, Rabindranath Tagore (Translated by William Butler Yeats)

weight, jacqueline woodson

[TEXT ID: "I appreciate your concern. None of this is your fault. It's me. It's me and my head. / In winter, I collapse." END ID]

Stress marks (1999), photograph