"...somewhere in the universe of my soul a fiery, life-giving star collapsed, and a very black hole began to form."

In honor of Nikki Giovanni passing:

"Don't ever be afraid of telling someone you love them. There are things wrong with your world, but an excess of love is not one." Matt Haig, the Humans

My husband and I visited Charlie's Collectable Store today. There are vendors with hundreds of old NES, PS1, Xbox 360, etc.... games stacked taller than me like mountains of memories.

"Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations." Matt Haig, The Humans

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, bakery, bookstore, and café.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible