Bottomless pit

 

Also, lovvve these lines by Zadie Smith:

One day this pandemic will be in the past tense. We will look at this time with distance, and sadness, and relief. We will suffer from other things then. [...]

Rookie mistake

 

So many thoughts on punitive/retributive justice, outrage and institutions, all reeking of disillusionment, but here's a wry laugh.

Crown heights, Virumandi, Just mercy, The Mauritanian - all good but enraging watches.

Here's an incredible, powerful poem: https://poets.org/poem/crime-and-punishment

To know all is to forgive all

 

The circle of life

 

Outbursts

 

A love life (or lack thereof)

 

Happy Valentine's

The map is not the territory

 

I've been thinking: while fascination for the sublime, the abstract and the romantic (in the widest sense of the word) makes for a rich and exhilarating inner life, an insane superpower to cultivate would be to experience the thing itself, so to speak, and not feel like it pales miserably in comparison to all the heady stuff.

For a start, it must be nice to be picking up groceries and for the mind to not immediately go to, 'okay so what is all this about anyway?'