Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.
Interpretation
Life is chaotic and not as orderly as we often perceive it to be.
This quote by Lidia Yuknavitch explores the unpredictable and fragmented nature of life, emphasizing that events do not always follow a linear progression or connect in clear cause-and-effect relationships. Instead, life is a complex interplay of various experiences, much like the relationship between language and water, suggesting that both are fluid and can take on different forms.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of existence.
I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.
I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.
This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.
People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.
Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.
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