Tracksuits and Potentiality
Oww you’re brilliant. Those last three paragraphs really struck hard, particularly that last line! Ouch!
Thank you for naming it — that ‘terrific terror of having a name in a language you cannot speak’; that feeling of being ‘nothing and everything’.
And maybe it could be enough, just to be throbbing with a blood that knows more than our words ever will.
PS. New band name: Giddy on Guinness
I love that beneath the surface of all of our whiteness are these worlds pumping with colour and life!
I love this. I feel this way about my Scottishness, and love the way Gaelic feels in my mouth. I wonder what it would be like for the mountains to just swallow me whole.
Imagine us as mountains waving across the Irish Sea
Oww you’re brilliant. Those last three paragraphs really struck hard, particularly that last line! Ouch!
Thank you for naming it — that ‘terrific terror of having a name in a language you cannot speak’; that feeling of being ‘nothing and everything’.
And maybe it could be enough, just to be throbbing with a blood that knows more than our words ever will.
PS. New band name: Giddy on Guinness
I love that beneath the surface of all of our whiteness are these worlds pumping with colour and life!
I love this. I feel this way about my Scottishness, and love the way Gaelic feels in my mouth. I wonder what it would be like for the mountains to just swallow me whole.
Imagine us as mountains waving across the Irish Sea