Chess isn’t always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful. It was the board I noticed first. It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it. And it’s predictable, so if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.
THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts Or does each man’s mad desire become his god?”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
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how it feels knowing that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall
“Sometimes in later summer I won’t touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink from the pond; I won’t name the birds of the trees; I won’t whisper my own name. One morning, the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought: so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful.”
— Mary Oliver, from October
Lameka Fox By Itaysha Jordan By The Washington Post September 2020
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