12.08.22

12.08.22

“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” —T.S. Eliot

And so, as a year has passed, I’ve come full circle. Not a real circle. More like a freaky circle. I’m with family. I’m reading a good book. In a month I’ll start my third year of university. Nothing and everything changes. Cheers to everyone wherever you are. The Perseids this year are too dim to see because of the full moon, but they’re still there. We’re still here. We are not alone.

“When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.’

- But there’s no place like that in this world.

- Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.” —Haruki Murakami



25.08.22

“One day you discover you are alive. / Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight / You laugh, you dance around, you shout. / But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” —Ray Bradbury

My anxiety has begun to outweigh my excitement regarding law school, but I made lasagna today and had a not so bad breakfast, so I guess that’s good enough. I’ve finished the day and I’m done with it.

“I hardly exist and if I do exist it’s with delicate care.”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”

[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]