To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings — all in the same relationship. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

El duende is literally the goblin wind or force behind a person’s actions and creative life, including the way they walk, the sound of their voice, even the way they lift their little finger. It is a term used in flamenco dance, and is also used to describe the ability to “think” in poetic images. Among Latina curanderas who recollect story, it is understood as the ability to be filled with spirit that is more than one’s own spirit. Whether one is the artist or whether one is the watcher, listener, or reader, when el duende is present, one sees it, hears it, reads it, feels it underneath the dance, the music, the words, the art; one knows it is there. When el duende is not present, one knows that too.

The pathologizing of variation in women's bodies is a deep bias endorsed by many psychological theorists, most certainly by Freud.