They said I’d be happier if I toned it down. I said: so would you.

If love doesn’t undo you a little, what’s the point? Love should transform, unsettle, recompose. Otherwise, it’s just choreography.

The second of my Substack essays … substack.com/@golightlysa...

So I have actually gone and done it as opposed to just talking about it - I started a Substack 🤦‍♀️First piece up & you can read/subscribe to it here golightlysabina.substack.com/?r=4ismh2&utm_…

Whimsy is the art of laughing at yourself, and finding joy in the unexpected.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. Erica Jong

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and be alive with me …

"You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way...you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing." Edie Sedgwick

Hello darkness my old friend …

“They stared at each other, man and alien, or more correctly alien and alien—for this is what they were to each other. Alien meaning different, alien meaning unknown.” -Harry Harrison, Plague from Space

I maintain my childhood position that the original iMacs should have had a mild but detectable fruit flavor when you licked them

strong, Czesław Miłosz, tr. the author & Robert Hass

As it’s Camus’s birthday today, I will shamelessly steal the re-write of his apocryphal quote!