Play-Doh
Imagination,
use your imagination, child.
Looking up at me,
eyes wide open,
curiosity and confusion.
Choosing Play-Doh over the truck.
Three.
Home.
A seed planted.
Hours with Play-Doh—
an ice cream store,
a hot dog stand,
play.
Imagination.
Not knowing,
but knowing.
Redefining intelligence.
To change is to imagine.
Peter Pan.
Non-fiction.
What We See
What We See
What we see is colonization, live.
What we see is what we have been given.
What we see is those who have gone beyond their means.
What we see is a way to fill the unfillable void.
What we see is the insatiable thirst for more.
What we see, we don’t want to believe.
What we see, we will regret.
What we see is the opposite of love.
What we see is selective care.
What we see is up to you and me.
Robert Colescott - School Days 1
Be With Her
Be with someone who makes your heart change its rhythmic state.
Be with someone who disrupts your insides—not so much that you lose yourself, but the right amount of disruption that ignites new parts of you.
Be with someone who makes you feel, activates your heart—someone you are excited to see at the end of the day.
Release the naysayers, the narratives and internal dialogue of the others, of those who know nothing about you, by those who don’t even know themselves.
Be with the one that… you don’t even need to write anymore. If she activates your heart, be with her.
Be with this feeling right now. Hold onto this. It’s a gift from her to you.
Be with the one who has the potential to break your heart.
Be with the one who reminds you of your existence and why you came here in the first place.
Be with her.
Jigsaw
Is there another way?
At some point, at some number, we need to pause and ask: Is this it? Is this the way?
The gauge is fear and stress. The higher the fear and stress, the more likely it’s not the way.
Or maybe it’s the other way? That’s for each of us to decipher.
A calculation I’m still calculating.
Left or right? Flip a coin and walk in the direction it tells you. Heads—left. Tails—right.
Upside down. Inside out.
It’s all a zigzag, back and forth. It’s the illusion of a straight line that brings pain to our hearts and minds.
Nothing about you is fucking straight, and in this jigsaw of a world, you want to walk a tightrope.
There is a guaranteed fall—and nothing below to catch you.
Embrace the upside down, and only then can you know what is right side up.