aMuse.

I’ve had a recent rebirth of love for Maya Angelou.

I have this thing where I’ve always identified with strong black women.  Chock it up to a past life in Kenya (or Georgia), or to the ever-so-mild oppression I experienced as the youngest and the only girl in my family, or simply to the fact that I’m hopelessly drawn to FIRE.

Unappologetically independent.  Fearleassly Fierce. Truly bursting at the seams with love, passion, conviction, wisdom, hope.

Thanks, Maya.

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

“Life loves the liver of it.”

It must be hard.

hyaarrr.

ok, so what now?

…because i’m sure as shit

not going back down there.

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
— David Sedaris

hey you

you ready to catch everything

i’m sending your way?