you need to read this.

you need to read this

because the quote below doesn't begin to capture its brilliance. it keeps going. because she's a necessary writer. because her writing breathes on its own. because she takes her heart, the heart, and makes it legible. and we need to read that. and i am grateful for her work everytime i get to read it.

"We bury pulleys in our walls and we swing things heavy from them–come here and pull me down. Tug lower the concrete drapes I tack up to digest the light in even tones. It never works, the keeping out–light has a way of making oceans out of the slightest crack in granite. We are not, we are, and not again. A thousand things. I said to someone: befriend those that give, but ones that can also take. You need both. You need to hear it, you need to say it. The people that are all one or the other, be wary. Let them warn themselves. You need lighthouses. You need music. ..."