All stories are also the stories of hands — picking up, balancing, pointing, joining, kneading, threading, caressing, abandoned in sleep, cutting, eating, wiping, playing music, scratching, grasping, peeling, clenching, pulling a trigger, folding.

∆ John Berger, From A to X: A Story in Letters

Philip Glass // "You practice and you get better. It's very simple."

“everything I touch turns into me.”

every heartbeat is a whisper:
stay soft
stay soft
stay soft

i think i see a path through the despair

i survived before. i will survive again.

i am shaped by desire

i cry myself to sleep every night, and nothing changes.

i must witness myself