Ive Been Thinking About The Way, When You Walk / Down A Crowded Aisle, People Pull In Their Legs / To

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk / down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs / to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” / when someone sneezes, a leftover / from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. / And sometimes, when you spill lemons / from your grocery bag, someone else will help you/ pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. / We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, / and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile / at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress / to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, / and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. / We have so little of each other, now. So far / from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. / What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these / fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, / have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”

— Small Kindnesses, Danusha Laméris

they didn't tell us there's gonna be a 2022 version of Over The Horizon by Suga too, it's so funky and different i almost thought it won't have any of the signature OTH tunes.

everyday i become obsessed with little stories about how life is terrible but it will always be worth living because, even in spite of our darkest moments, there will be love around the corner. let life start and end with tragedy. let us be torn apart. let everything have no meaning because the meaning is ours to create. we don’t need perfection. we don’t need a happy ending because we have each other. we are the meaning of life. each moment of laughter, every time you feel that warm feeling in your stomach, that makes life worth living. why are we here? what’s the point. maybe there isn’t one. but we still have to live in this world we created, as awful as it is. so why not love each other. why not just live and laugh and cry and be. because we can

once i was doing the dishes and there was a hair strand poking my eye and i just couldn't get it out of the way with the back of my soiled hand and in the process my glasses got wet and dirty. all that in vain. finally i resigned to washing my hands properly, drying, then cleaning my eye and then my glasses and then finally went back to washing the dishes. in that moment i realised how much we need the people who love us and whom we love around us, so that maybe they can get that little urgent itch out of the way so you don't have to leave your work in frustration, so that maybe when you feel cold they can hold your hands and let you slide in the warmth of their quilt after a long day of tiresome work, so that maybe when you get stuck helplessly they can be by your side but not the way of undermining your independence just giving that little support we all deserve. in moments like these i realise how much we are meant to be together with people, with love, with kindness.

I was just scrolling through Pinterest and guess what I found out what to do?

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(It's a plague doctor)

just like it’s important that we let people embrace and be flamboyant with their gender, we must allow people to have gender be a nonimportant part of their identity. a cis woman can love being feminine and claim her womanhood loud and proud, just like another cis woman can just be ‘whatever’ about it. a trans woman can be hyperfeminine and proud, while another can just say ‘yeah i’m a woman’ without it being a gigantic deal to her. a non-binary person doesn’t have to be constantly torn up about their gender identity to be non-binary. all experiences of gender are unique and valid in their own way.