I want to Amen everything ever: the tiny snore-shivers of a tinier kitty, the tenderness of Dad’s wheelchair lit by outside streetlight as we sang the chorus to Senses Working Overtime by XTC in a Bristolian accent, the sixteen-year-old held more by shitty post-hardcore songs than their family.
I resonate with how you put words to the way that we hold many feelings in any one moment. “It has been and still is a journey to embrace the way such a strong, unwavering capacity to feel enhances and complicates my life. That wholeness can be a lot. But it’s mine.”
Our capacity to feel lends an appreciation of art and nature and small details and a deep sense of wholeness…while also introducing hurt and loneliness on a level I’m not sure every can identify with. Feeling deeply is messy and complicated but so, so beautiful and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Thank you for so honestly sharing your words!
Your writing here reminds me that it’s okay to let all the emotions coexist, even when they clash or confuse. You’re saying that in the middle of the noise, we can find a kind of truth in the messiness, in the rawness. And that’s something I’m learning to adopt more and more—letting the mess be part of the masterpiece!!! LOVED it!
This was messy and I loved it. Long, meandering, nonsensical lines interrupted with sudden flashes of precise depth and beauty - you write with the very contradiction of which you speak. Lonely and in love. I felt seen.❤️
A gorgeous, heartfelt response Nida. I truly value every word. Here's to keeping close to who we are, and hoping that if nobody else, we see ourselves.
I resonate with how you put words to the way that we hold many feelings in any one moment. “It has been and still is a journey to embrace the way such a strong, unwavering capacity to feel enhances and complicates my life. That wholeness can be a lot. But it’s mine.”
Our capacity to feel lends an appreciation of art and nature and small details and a deep sense of wholeness…while also introducing hurt and loneliness on a level I’m not sure every can identify with. Feeling deeply is messy and complicated but so, so beautiful and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Thank you for so honestly sharing your words!
Your writing here reminds me that it’s okay to let all the emotions coexist, even when they clash or confuse. You’re saying that in the middle of the noise, we can find a kind of truth in the messiness, in the rawness. And that’s something I’m learning to adopt more and more—letting the mess be part of the masterpiece!!! LOVED it!
Amazing, Mohika. Here's to letting the mess be part of our masterpieces!
This was messy and I loved it. Long, meandering, nonsensical lines interrupted with sudden flashes of precise depth and beauty - you write with the very contradiction of which you speak. Lonely and in love. I felt seen.❤️
A gorgeous, heartfelt response Nida. I truly value every word. Here's to keeping close to who we are, and hoping that if nobody else, we see ourselves.
Yep!
This is like a long tender poem. Stunning. ❤️
Thank you so much, Nadia! I love how our recent posts feel like they’re walking down the same street.
Beautiful, insightful verse. You use language in a freshly innovative way.
Means a lot, Beth.
Oof. Jim, this is gorgeous. “I am both surging with loneliness and set inner-alight with love.” What an ode to joy. Thank you for this!🙏💕
Maryyyy. YOU are an ode to joy, but also, much like this post tried to be: to all the other human feelings that surge and surge. Appreciate you.
I resonate so much with this, thank you for sharing <3
I really, really, really love this. Felt each word on a cellular level. Thank you for the gift of your exquisite, heart-abundant writing.
I loved the slow, but continuous shuffle of this piece, it would work brilliantly in spoken word or a one man show.
Really appreciate this insight, Tara!
Glow sticks, nipples and a confetti of feels. We were on this walk home with you Jim.
There's a workshop title, that first sentence. ;)
Thank you Jim♥️ I needed this today. “The sky starless and too big to believe in.” And yet you do — embracing a wild joy in everything.
So, so glad that it connected and found you when you needed it, Sharon.