Friday, February 28, 2014

transcending the physical



"it is easy to see the beginnings of things and harder to see the ends." - joan didion







we love to objectify things



"from a swing state"



why is it so much easier to think in terms of binaries? female/male. success/failure. republican/democrat. chocolate/vanilla. taylor swift enthusiast/cultural illiterate.

on the train this morning, a bundled-up mother was sitting with her bundled-up infant baby-bjorned to her chest, face-to-face.  the mother yawned cavernously, and the child giggled at the close-up view of its mother's distorted expression.  a game emerged out of it--like peek-a-boo but with the mother exposing hidden tonsils instead of a hidden face.  the child was moved to such overwhelming laughter that it eventually threw it's head against its mother's chest in a nonverbal cry of "uncle."  it burrowed its face into the folds of its mother's down parka and tightened the marsupial grip it had around her torso. the mother wrapped her arms around her infant's body and closed her eyes as she rubbed her cheek gently against the delicate hairs on top of the child's grapefruit-sized head.

in the evening, i downloaded grindr and came across a half-naked bathroom selfie of an ex-boyfriend located four hundred and eight feet away--marketing himself as a "clean, sub, bottom twink" looking for "right now."

in between, i ate half of an okay-tasting orange from my home state of florida, which is proof of the existence of a "grey area."

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happy last day of black history month!

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