this morning in wisconsin there was a -30F wind chill. i’m sick and used to think i needed coddling like an actual baby but now i think i’ve joined the church of FUCKING WITH TEMPERATURE to fix the body. i.e. it feels important to get oneself hot and cold often and will that make me stronger? i walked down to the lake which is starting to freeze and develop its own low ominous clouds and haze look!!! the phenomenon that is the lake! the way god freezes over an entire lake and whips wind all around you!!!
For the longest time I felt like if I started a book, I had to finish it. Who knows why, it's not like the author will find out. So, in the last year or so, I've started to just *put the book down* if I'm not enjoying it and release myself from any guilt / weird feelings, and start a different book. I've read more books since I've started to mark books "did not finish" and move on. If you like short fiction, I love Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine, and if you like short, heart wrenching memoir I love The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
Not the watered down version to save the other person’s feelings. Not half of what you feel. Not the version that you know makes other people more comfortable. Not the version you wish was true. What you actually fucking feel. Terrifying! I know!
