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In the end, your role is to attend to the things you like and ask for more of it: Bridges. Ideas. Destabilization. Yellow tansy. Cities. The wild sea. And in the absence of recovery, some ritual. In the absence of love? Ritual. Understand that ritual is a kind of patience, an awaiting and waiting. Keep waiting, kitten. You will be surprised what you can come back from.
How boring to accumulate love only to test it.
You pour orange rossa and ask what I think of your hometown. It feels like a proposal.
Optimism plus despair is the soup of our time.
Come see me in Vienna, you say. And I do. Because I believe so much in being led.
She is not tortured by a bad melody, instead, she’d prefer pain not be glamorous or candlelit or ironic or theater. She knows that not everything holy has to hurt or cohere.
