"how do you explain to someone who doesn’t speak the language, who hasn’t made the trip to the edge and looked over..."
i’m fat again today
"so i’m fat today but not fat. i have incongruity. what i know to be true and what i feel are utterly at odds. it’s a disconcerting and uncomfortable feeling."
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a new bodega
"i’ve started going to a new corner store – to call it a bodega might be stretching the definition some. it’s been a challenge; if you don’t suffer from anxiety, you might not realize what an enormously big deal a change like this is."
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i’m dying to be beautiful
"some topics come up more than others, in my blog and in my brain. i revisit this one regularly, because the desire to be beautiful takes up huge parts of my psyche and it’s killing me. analyzing my history and thought processes, unpacking what i think “beautiful” means and why i can’t be okay if i can’t meet the arbitrary and ever-changing definitions i impose are important things to understand"
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my child
"i would tell you that i love you more than my life, and that your existence is more vital to me than anything else in the world, and that your morning smiles give me a reason to get up every day –
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sharing words you found profound
“The events of my life are like the rolling of the waves, the changing of the tide, the shifting of the wind – they contain no judgment."
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rats
"the world is spinning too fast. the requirements are piling up and pressing me down, while my wants and wishes are shunted off to the side..."
