Sentimental Value
From the solace of our home, I got to reconfigure my relationship with my hometown and with my family.
From the solace of our home, I got to reconfigure my relationship with my hometown and with my family.
The gym is not cheap, yet it delivers your endorphins with such convenience and style that it feels excusable.
I collect these moments, these small intimacies with strangers, shoring up an evidence base of my own existence and its overlap with others’.
I feel the in-person lived reality of the bystander effect, to which I’ve always told myself I would be the exception.
A perfect amount of quiet time, for reconnection and reflection…except that my thoughts were absolute nonsense.
I’m obsessed with the context that traveling by land brings to my destination, in a similar way that visiting a friend in their hometown is such a joy.
You should be doing something for pleasure, and you should be kind of bad at it.
As someone drawn to haphazardness in my organized religion, I was charmed.
When Scott, Drew, Rosi, and Jane finally arrive at the finish line, I felt as if I’d completed something of significance myself.
I somehow want to “succeed” in my social interactions. Oldest daughter syndrome claims another victim.
Contrarianism is in a way innately consumptive—you take something in, and you become the opposite of it.
I felt as if I’d come unmoored from reality, these quiet paths and dark woods so different from the bustling and meticulously-planned city streets upon which I lived my life.
Punchy and riotous on first taste, it leaves a surprising and persistent note of ontological questioning.
I can join the response to “Le seigneur soit avec toi” with “et avec votre esprit.”