Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too