“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” Audre Lorde
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What is authenticity?
Love’s reflection.
notes.
“Being in Colorado made me realize how heavy the invisible, weighted cloak of oppression of the South is.” - Olivia, Black in Denver
”I found God in myself and I loved her. I loved her fiercely.” - Ntozake Shange
sound.
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ZqUj735aRxK2KpEb6
on love and authenticity.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
community.
Community (noun) // a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
look up.
There is so much energy in the night sky
So many layers
worlds
We can’t even imagine
In awe of its complexity
Intrigued by its depth
Surrender to its power
Humbled by its beauty
narkita
the beauty of loneliness.
“Existential loneliness is a way of being in the world, a way of grasping for and confronting one's own subjective truth.”
“Loneliness is not the experience of what one lacks, but rather the experience of what one is.”
“Loneliness, on this view, is an experience to be welcomed rather than banished, for it brings us face to face with two of life's most important questions: What is life really all about, and how should I use my freedom to define myself?”
read more: an existential view on loneliness