You keep worrying you're taking up too much space. I wish you'd let yourself be the milky way. - Andrea Gibson

Come, love, make me better than I was. Come teach me a kinder way to say my own name

I’ve had many jobs before this one and will have many after, but this is where I learn one of the most vital lessons: if your own story is one you aren’t sure you can survive, remove whatever sharpness you can from another person’s life.

My first psychotherapist told me to spend three hours each day sitting in a dark closet with my eyes closed and my ears plugged. I tried it once but couldn't stop thinking how gay it was to be sitting in the closet.