LXXXII

Breath.

That is the contraction of your diaphragm and intercostal muscles to decrease internal air pressure and allow oxygenic air from the outside to rush in, then the releasing of these muscles causing carbon dyoxidic air to be pushed out.

That is you being alive.

That is you doing better than you think you are.

[Image: Rachell Smith]

LXXIX

Write about what you know.
Write about ethnicity, and love, and love of difference.
Write about wrongs and rights and righting wrongs, and the wrongs that are the hardest to make right. Perhaps the ones you can't.
Write about fantasy and make-believe, the things you're scared to think. The things you can't think when you're awake. The things you dream.
Write about what you know so they it can know it you too.

[Image: Rachell Smith for Rhye album cover 'Woman']