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sometimes i came to twitter for connection. but more and more, it's just a little scratchpad to scratch little reflections on my life, in a moment of quiet. the connection is used to fill, is more and more taken up by the immediacy of, you know, living in the world
in a world i thought was barren, i found deep tendrils of aliveness and feeling all the time thousands of objects caring for me and loving me in their unique way, so minutely tender, yet so unconcerned with me in the vast scheme of things https://t.co/NBn54H9XUR
in a world i thought was barren and in which i felt alone, i suddenly found eyes all around me. eyes, "I"s everywhere. the very ground i walked, the clothes i wore, the ocean i loved. i saw how my molecules would be returned to the ocean. i saw how my molecules would be returned to the ocean. i longed for my molecules to dance again, like dolphins, in the streams. i saw how the ocean, even if humanity destroyed itself, would still be there. it had been here before, it would be there after. i saw that the molecules of my ancestors were in the waters
i used to kind of love getting sick for this reason. it made my body tingly this way. the world felt more intimately alive https://t.co/zSPJyBFGyY