uneven footing - by Ava - bookbear express
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buckle up, we're accelerating
Richard Diebenkorn, Lemons and Jar, 1958 As a little girl, I longed for things to be definitive. I wanted to know what my future life would look like, I prayed that it would be exciting and significant, but most of all I yearned for safety. This desire for reassurance, for the guarantee that I would be okay, informed a lot of my earliest choices: being extremely studious, wanting to go to a good university, searching for a high-paying job. My need for reassurance came from my extreme anxiety. This Substack has in part been an exploration of how I moved on from that anxiety. Lots of things…
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