mary ruefle was right when she said that people would rather read an essay about poetry than read a poem. it reminds me of when people in a museum read the explanatory caption before having their own experience of the art. you fear not "getting it" when you should fear not living
writing (good) poems is hard, but writing *about* poems is also hard. maybe especially about poems you admire because you're trying to explicate, not just praise
i feel like there's a lot of effort being put into having the 'right' or 'cool' taste in movies (or tv or books etc.) instead of putting effort into developing your own taste. one that will remain interesting and meaningful to you. and one that will keep expanding as you grow
often the least interesting thing i can say about a work of art is whether i liked it or disliked it. more interesting is what kind of questions the work leads me to ask, to sit with, to move through, sometimes (if the piece deeply delights, haunts, sings, disturbs) for years
Partying is such an underrated spiritual ritual. The act of moving in sync to a beat with a crowd of strangers, connecting on a somatic level, linking up energetically is an inherently spiritual experience and is often the seed that grows into people's developing intuitive centers. Dance and collective connection to sound connects us to an embodied sense of our surroundings. Inebriation is usually just an unnecessary additive, I barely even think about it when I think about partying
adventure time suddenly revealing that its set in a new age past a cataclysmic nuclear war may have been one of the many hands that kneaded my tiny little child mind into the shape that it is now