dissonance - by Isabel - Mind Mine

physically here, mentally elsewhere

Thelonious Monk by Martel Chapman I keep writing and then re-writing this essay—each time with a different title, its words pivoting around a new centrepiece, a novel way of approaching a feeling that has been running through my psyche for weeks now. After many fruitless attempts, I think I’ve finally arrived at a word that captures the emotions I’ve been trying to express: dissonance. You know that feeling of being in between two phases? That feeling of simultaneously moving away from something that no longer fits while moving towards something you almost fit into—getting out of a…

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