quantum self

  • You don’t know the exact second it happens.You just wake up one morning and something in your mind sounds… different. The old voice is gone.The one that used to replay memories, arguments, fears, to-do lists.The one that narrated everything like it was a problem to solve. In its place is something clean.Steady.Quiet in a way…

    Read more →

  • (For more than a year I poured myself into a portfolio for art school. Only the pieces that felt closest to my truth made it in, and even then I wasn’t sure any of them were good enough. A panel of professionals would decide if I was worthy of a seat. I remember pacing the…

    Read more →

  • (It was the last summer I spent in P-town before adulthood found me. I lived on American Beauty that summer, letting Sugar Magnolia play again and again like it had just come out. It became the backdrop to everything. That summer on the Cape felt endless, like time loosened its grip just long enough for…

    Read more →

  • (Headphones on-Sweet Inspirations-Thomas Kinkade) Living in Two Planes and the Madness That Follows You don’t realize you’re slipping until you notice your mind keeps its own calendar. One day you’re here—keys in the door, lights humming, water running in the sink—while another version of you is still standing in a hallway that never existed in…

    Read more →