In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.
Libba BrayTags: anarchy
But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.
Libba BrayYou’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
Libba BrayPeople always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.
Libba BrayThe dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
Libba BrayOur mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.
Libba BrayTags: love belief change rebirth
I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
Libba BrayTags: gonzo going-bovine
Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.
Libba BrayTags: a-great-and-terrible-beauty
Sometimes when the wind blows through the leaves, it sounds like your name. It’s like a sigh then. The most beautiful sound I ever heard. A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer – Gem-ma, Gem-ma – and then the leaves trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.
Libba BrayTags: the-sweet-far-thing
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
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