Nicole

mastering being detached from everything yet being connected to everything at the same time. this is the secret to life i think

I’ll sorry but the ancestors who left their lives as miserable peasants back in whatever empire owned Poland, where a paczek was made of prune paste and semi-rancid pig grease, had the raw nerve crossed the wide ocean to start new and better lives in Detroit are now celebrating this in heaven with John Paul. This is the goddamn American dream.

“you can’t forget your mother tongue” okay but have you considered bilinguals and polyglots whose first language isn’t english and whose development during adolescence was shaped by consuming content and media only in english and have ever since viewed that second language, foreign to their own, as a better outlet for their emotions and thoughts? as Yiyun Li said “it is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet impossible in my native language.”