Essence must have the essence.

Those two bottles cost close to 4 thousand dollars each. They keep me alive, cause with HIV meds treatment the cost is the only toxic part.

In my childhood I would see them daily often they would dance together in the backyards of my summers. I occasionally spot them today always alone, never dancing together, surviving still with their beauty. Ephemeral. I think I understand loneliness in a better way when I see them now.

"What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group." Gloria Steinham.

My relationship to the news cycle today.