holding steady.™

thinking about my love for audre lorde helps me to forget my problems.

(emphasis mine)

“when we define ourselves, when i define myself, the place in which i am like you and the place in which i am not like you, i’m not excluding you from the joining–I’m broadening the joining.“

“we are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.”

“possibility is neither forever nor instant. it is not easy to sustain belief in its efficacy. we can sometimes work long and hard to establish [a] beachhead of real resistance to the deaths we are expected to live…“

“for there are no new ideas. there are only new ways of making them felt…”

(that last one evokes some of the sentiments present in a short monologue i’m slightly obsessed with, c/o Harper in “Angels in America”.)

summer plans.

i shouldn’t have even typed that out as the title, since i still don’t have definite plans.

but i guess i just wanted to express how excited i am that several research opportunities have presented themselves for the upcoming mid-year break. those, along with my personal dedication to do some internal housekeeping (e.g. FINALLY organize, categorize and properly tag all my photos, clean up my music library, practice the guitar, do a little triathlon training, learn to cook some new things…basically be a better me™, will go a long way towards keeping me busy and out of trouble.

since i won’t see much (if any) of my beloved Miami this summer, it’s kind of just as well that i get things done, and in a big way.

ok, i guess i’ll go to work now…