I often became demotivated and stuck, feeling that I was under-qualified. but a weak application was better than not trying at all...

a ladybug doesn't need to be fixed or changed, a ladybug just is the way a ladybug is. I spent a long time trying to want the ladybug...

AMS sparked my joy for learning again, and CAL made it possible to manage the program in a way where I would not be drowning in my work. and now this...

I open my body, or I try to. I want to cry, but sometimes it doesn't feel natural. sometimes it feels like a wave is coming but there's some force, some dam or wall restricting the water...

I feel cavernous and echoey. I feel raw and irritated. I feel like something is missing. if these cravings had a voice I wonder what they would tell me...

one of only two public transgender libraries in the entire world, and I happen to live in Ottawa. what a gift that really is...

it's a quiet kind of love that only your animals can give. that dependent, loyal, pathetically sweet kind of love. but after the first night, I felt so deeply, crushingly homesick...

winterlude is one of those winter festivals that makes being outside in the cold feel purposeful. I was glad I went. then things changed...

my worth cannot be tied to how long i am willing to stay inside someone else's confusion, silence, or inability to be honest with me...

ms. gillis didn't force me into a rigid mold. she trusted that i could demonstrate understanding through a different form...

he kept coming back to the same idea. the power of presence. that there is so much power in simply being there for someone, even if you do not say much...

there is something about seeing artists stripped of spectacle, just standing in a room full of office clutter, pouring everything they have into their sound...

I keep asking myself how to stop bracing, like it's a switch I should be able to flip if I just want it badly enough. but I don't think that's how it works...

i think i thrive as part of a unit. that feels important to admit. for a long time i told myself i needed distance to survive...