I Love Getting Older I Don’t Know What Anything Means

Pink Velvet Cake

life is beautiful and i am beautiful and everything coming will be better than anything that has ever left or ended

kiki smith : outdoors (1997)

Dusk in the Meadow 5

Rocky Mountain National Park, Summer 2024

Harebells

Vengefulness is obsolete to me. Sometimes your absence in someone’s life really is enough. There is no greater emptiness than to look for someone in everything and find them in nothing

February 2, 1933 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

Maybe you didn’t personally drop bombs on innocent Yemenis, but the guy whose plane you performed maintenance on did. Maybe you didn’t shoot that 14 year old Iraqi kid who got too close to wire, but the guy you provided medical care did. Maybe you didn’t sexually assault that woman in Okinawa, but the guy who ate in your mess hall did. The vast majority of military service roles are non-combat. Their only purpose is to enable the combatants who carry out the crimes of the American empire.

“I know how lucky I am, stupid with luck, crammed with it, stumbling drunk. I wake sometimes in the dark terrified by my life’s precariousness, its thready breath.”

— Madeline Miller, Circe