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I have been dying on this hill, but looks like I’m not alone—Beyonce’s Renaissance dropped a bit ago and it is obviously an Album™.

It’s been making me think of this interview clip of Bey herself (which, truthfully, I think about a lot)—

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“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform.

When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative — we don’t know more, we become more.

Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make — make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.”

(Eugene H. Peterson)

Or, as C.S. Lewis writes, “to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”

Or, as a language tutor of mine once said, “as long as the listener understands, you’re succeeding.”

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Hazy photos from late August—shot by Anabel. 🌻🌾

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I spent all of summer off social media, in an attempt to clear out my soul and “apply ass to chair” regarding my 2nd album. The album is almost a third of the way tracked, and I’m back on socials but at a bit of a loss as to how I want to re-engage. I used to treat my instagram as a mini-blog, writing long captions about my life and musings, but it just doesn’t feel like the right place anymore…so I’m here instead, back in a corner of my own making.

Lately I’ve been thinking of a blog as a sort of idea apothecary. An apothecary is an old term for a person who prepares medicines, knowledgable about different ingredients, components and methods—and as I’ve been working on my album and considering my completed projects, I’ve been reflecting on how many odds and ends (ingredients, components, methods) it takes to cobble together a finished work. I like the idea of my website being a trail of breadcrumbs (a photo dump here, a musing there) leading further up and further in. Somewhere you might find a dash of material you weren’t expecting.

Maybe it’s just for me, my own cabinet of curiosities, a record of where exactly I’ve journeyed as I carry out my work, but please enjoy. 🌞✨

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