June 22 | What You Need It to Be

Here: take the next couple of lines. This letter can be whatever you need it to be.

It can be humorous, it can be thoughtful. It can be straightforward. It can use punchy sentences. Or turn unexpected, flowery phrases, meandering sentences that rip the tears from your eyes like the english language stuck a straw into your soul. 

It can be about history, about modern times, about anything you want it to be. It could be about a submarine in the news or some timeless truth, floating on an ocean of quotes and references.

Then again, by describing what it could be, it’s entirely none of those things. 

Because often, what we need something to be is the biggest thing in between us and what it is.… Read the rest