august 22, 2021

the adjustment to college living has been a little rough, but thankfully i have little objects of familiarity that bring me comfort. good books, my reading and writing journal, and cups of coffee and tea. i feel autumn on the way, and it reminds me that everything will be okay. best of wishes this fall semester <3

11.29.2021

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.

As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.

“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”

Write hard and clear about what hurts.