I was working on a paper last night and I found that quote as I pored through the works of Walter Benjamin, trying to understand memory, love, images, hope. I still don’t understand but I found this quote very powerful. You see this weekend I found myself crumbling under the weight of the unconditional love […]
The toilets in my house are really clean. Like seriously clean. Eat off me, rest your cheek on my seat clean. Disinfected, gloriously shiny and smelling like the janitor just came through clean. Why? because I cleaned them. Because it was mindless. Because it didn’t involve facing anything. I can’t face it. I can’t face […]
I hadn’t realized how overwhelming my trip to Arizona had been until I came back and began to process it. The reality of a diagnoses and what that means to an individual are hard things to understand. The reality of being differently abled than what you are accustomed to is scary, even if the consequences […]
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