Healers aren’t holy beings sent down from the light, they emerge from the darkness after learning how to heal and radiate the glow of alchemical transformation.
A couple of weeks ago I shared the crowdfunder for a young British woman and mum of four who is raising £10,000 to be euthanised in Switzerland after being left bedbound and disabled by covid. Last week we exchanged messages. This is her story 🧵
solange cooked when she said “i can’t be a singular expression of myself, there’s too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys....” i felt that.
You can always tell when someone gonna be successful cause they be blatantly different from everything else around them. Without even trying . The demeanor just be different
had this moment yesterday where i realized im going through serious cycles of grief. and it’s not from my personal life. its collective grief. i’m going from anger to sadness to denial to acceptance to guilt to processing to disbelief to fear to empowerment to disillusionment to
there’s literally just so much going on. every person i talk to is not doing well or is going through something. its very emotional. its chaotic. on personal levels and on collective levels there is so fucking much going on.
it’s incredibly hard to give yourself permission to slow down and properly look after yourself as a disabled person when anyone who is not a Perfect Capitalism Machine is labelled a lazy scrounger
Harper Lee’s friends gifted her a year’s financial support for Christmas so she could write whatever she wanted without worrying about money and she used it to write To Kill a Mockingbird in case you're wondering what to get your creative friends this year
I'm being pedantic here but blockbuster films did not look like this. Sam Raimi movies did. What we need to go back to is Sam Raimi having a new movie every couple years.