Desk calendar from 2016 that I posted on social media 9 years ago.
Since then, I've realized that, for me, it's really that that I don't want to slow down. Rather, it's because the water I swim in is in a relentless current rushing towards a chasm so deep, unrelenting of its rush for the fall. Ultimately, the system doesn't want me to slow down because doing so would threaten its maniacal existence. And, so, these days, being able to slow down to sip a cup of coffee with my husband in the morning is both a privilege and a radical middle finger to this capitalist rush towards self-destruction. Despite what a capitalist, white supremacist, transphobic, racist system tells us, we deserve rest and care, not because of how productive we've been on any particular day. But, rather, we deserve rest and care simply because we just do. We are love, made material.
Full stop.
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