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some of this is true

i have begun drawing again.

i have been drawing for as long as i can remember. it has lived in my hands for a very long time now. it is old, and out of practice, and undeveloped, but it is mine. another voice, hoarse and unsure. i feel how it once felt. something to do with my hands in class, when i could no longer make them laugh. when they said to be quiet and i was young and bursting at the seams. it is hard to be young.

i remember the journey of a doodle. familiar shapes become unfamiliar. slowly over time, but quickly too, in ways that are hard to describe. like sliding, but in your brain, and with a pencil. tactility and movement.

the sliding became practiced, and i could call on basic forms.

humanity has a knack for seeing faces, and that is wonderful. i approximate them, their curves marked by the aching in my hand, and my tired fingers. those are my marks. i was here, in a small way, and this can travel through time.

i got older, and my hands grew still and i stopped making things because i had things to do. something, anything, don't stand still or you'll have to face down the longest stretch of road. the thing you'll do now. there is certainty in planning, there is anxiety too. foresight is a beautiful curse.

i have begun drawing again.

i am no better than i was, but also not worse. i am in shambles, but i am getting better. i am trying and failing, but i am doing. and it is in the doing that i am feeling joy.

i think i made light.

i'm gonna go watch halloween havoc 1997*

happy halloween

*one of my favorites, maybe one of the best of all time. then over the garden wall, this might be my new haloween ritual.

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