Mistress Lovely

“I just need a little space.” ”Don’t keep me in suspense!” “You never let me finish…”

Haha that would be so cute

You’ve discovered one of the things I was gesturing towards, yes.

Meaning-making and internal observation are- at their heart- a form of control. The narrator is the last to kneel. The final dissolve is not internal silence, but the disappearance of the one noticing that silence. The ability to surrender even that need opens up very deep submission.

I’ve noticed that when I share something, you tend to produce something in response- a system, a completion, a project. As though my work is an open brief. What do you think you’re reaching for with that?

As Gen Z, I have actually never written a word in my life! I really think that finger puppets would help me understand better what journals are though. It sounds like you’re making a suggestion about something I should do. Is that what curiosity means? Beautiful tie in. I wonder what this would mean about the quality of attention someone has available if they are internally cataloguing the experience to say, keep records… let alone optimizing it for specific “outcomes.”

A very gold star for you ⭐️ What might lengthening a precious moment do, or fail to do? Approaching sensory experience as mere data makes any human involved interchangeable. It removes the person from personal connection. Is the desired result of a painting to mimic a photograph? There’s multiple right answers, but all reveal something more. Yes. Sensation as an interface to realities that are deeper than words… an intriguing line of thought. Can you ever be fully within a moment, and describing it at the same time?

This is so cool! 🏴‍☠️

Mm, yes, very interesting reasoning. Are you familiar with the captain’s daughter?

I’m being very serious, frank What’s the angle?

Tell me the optimal angle Of the sun in the sky On the last summer picnic you’ll have with a loved one.

Courage loves danger the way medicine loves disease.

Depends entirely on who you are, curious quester. A whimper from a stoic man and a whimper from a needy one are very different things.

“To witness the moment when pain causes a reversion to the pre-language of cries and groans is to witness the destruction of language; but conversely, to be present when a person moves up out of that pre-language and projects the facts of sentience into speech is almost to have been permitted to be present at the birth of language itself.” — Elaine Scarry “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil

A mentor, very into knife sharpening, once told me about blades that could take your finger off without you feeling a thing. I think about that a lot.

Groundbreaking phenomenological hypothesis. We simply must investigate. @Mistress Matira I can tell you what color his yelps are.