I don’t need to manifest my dream life because I already have it.
The best boy
vampire who’s married to an archaeologist voice: my love, stop trying to carbon date me
What if we learned about nature in relation to our body instead of as something that is subject to us, that surrounds us? I repotted an anthurium today and its roots were all bunched up together because it was originally in a too small pot. I decided to loosen the roots so they could take up more space in the dirt and I was reminded of how roots are essentially veins/veins are roots! Carrying life-giving nutrients and just their shape! And how the branches of a tree are fractals, like the pathways in our brains, like lightning in the sky! Point is, we would probably feel more connected and invested in the natural world if we learned about it as similar to ourselves, as ourselves being a part of it down to the design elements being similar.
“A cage went in search of a bird.”
— Franz Kafka
Everything is just sunshine and butterflies for this baby
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, from You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems, trans. Fady Joudah.
Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes