“To Make A Difference In Someone’s Life You Don’t Have To Be Brilliant, Rich, Beautiful Or Perfect.

And the smell of incense filled her room

Her body is full of raw, unmatched power. There seems to be a reactor burning at the very core of her physical being, propelling forth magnetic forces that either burn right through you or drag you to her feet.

- Lilith in 10th house, Scorpio rising, Pluto in 1st house

When you find your people you’ll still look over your shoulder sometimes to see if you’re being followed. You’re hoping one or two people you don’t know will want to see where you’re going. When you find your people they won’t ask you where you came from because they’ll already know & if they don’t they’ll be busy putting good food on your plate & asking you if you’re hungry or broke. When you find your people they’ll tell you  to use any bathroom you want, marry anybody you want, work side-by-side for long hours with full wages without any fear of being harmed.  When you find your people they’ll throw their star to you, offer you  their love song & say you need to listen to this dance & shine with us whether or not you know all the steps. When you find your people  they’ll say Do You Remember & you’ll say Yes until you remember together the different ways the whole thing happened. When you find your people they’ll say wear whatever you want, wear the tightest dress, wear your hot pants, your fishnets, your damn birthday suit. They’ll say we love your black skin & drag & fat & natural hair & we love you from your roots so please just live & don’t let anybody kill you or tell you they’ve killed you & you’re just fine the dead way you are. When you find your people don’t leave them & don’t let them off the hook when they are in the wrong.  When they are trying to take themselves out of the world  lay your hands on them & call them yours & yours & yours. When you find your people be sure you’ve been preparing your difficult heart by loving yourself, & what you pretend you don’t know you actually do, so that when you see your kin smiling into your eyes, the soft or tough flags of their hands covering yours in a truth so light & fierce, you see you all have been midair for some time, & could go higher, & burn some shit up, if you remembered what else is good, everywhere & everywhere you look.

— Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Chosen Family,” in Seeing the Body

— Margaret Atwood, from “Morning in the Burned House.”

@lettucefather merry (very late) evolutionmas! i drew the tmi characters as moths/butterflies

Must be the season of the witch

Pablo Neruda, Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: One Hundred Love Sonnets; from ‘XVII’, tr. Stephen Mitchell