frames - by Ava - bookbear express

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behavior is magic

Zhang Enli, Landscape, from the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of ARA On the phone we were saying that I’m kind of like a soup dumpling: the skin is cool and dry, but when you bite in it gets hot and leaky. I used to feel embarrassed by this, like I was somehow misrepresenting myself by going through the world in my measured, opaque, even-tempered way, when really I burn quite hot. But once I started thinking more about frames I realized that it was more of an issue of containment than misrepresentation. For years, my goal was to find a way to coexist with my sensitivity without detaching from…

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