A Love Letter to my Galentines
I have written in countless birthday cards, “I don’t know where I would be without you.”
I have written in countless birthday cards, “I don’t know where I would be without you.”
In a life where fasting is underutilized, one forty-day stint is not going to make a big difference.
And yet my experience of love is deep and varied, though not in a way that amatonormativity and our limited language surrounding love recognizes.
Smashing a guitar on SNL is the most Phoebe Bridgers action possible.
I am resigned to spending my entire allotment of time for recklessness trapped within the confines of a single city.
Despite the islanders’ departure, the islands of St. Kilda are still there, still beautiful, still alive.
Yet the saddest part is that in their obsession with each other, Romeo and Juliet are constantly oblivious to the people around them who love them so incredibly much.
I’ve always wanted to know what other people are reading and discovering and mulling over and delighting in.
This newfound freedom is not packaged individually; it is meant to be shared.
If all of creation is spinning towards destruction, why does anything matter at all?