wonders and bombardments and suggestions

Audre: Once you live any piece of your vision it opens you to a constant onslaught. Of necessities, of horrors, but of wonders too, of possibilities.

Adrienne: I was going to say, tell it on the other side.

Audre: Of wonders, absolute wonders, possibilities, like meteor showers all the time, bombardment, constant connections. And then, trying to separate what is useful for survival from what is distorted, destructive to self.

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Rae suggested tonight that I think of my dissertation as something I'm doing as an act of love for a friend--something I'm not writing for a PhD program, but something I want to write, and I'm choosing this style because my friend wishes it.

It's an interesting idea.