Prevailing Ritual


Prevailing Ritual is an open collection of anonymous journal entries, found and submitted.

Fears, obsessions, hopes, dreams, resentments, worries, hurts, plans, lust, and burning anger. You’ve felt it. We’ve felt it. No shame in it.

Anonymous Anonymous

June 30, 2001 - Somerville, MA

My notebook is out; I’m all ears, Life! Slip me under your wing; let’s take a spin. I won’t make a sound; we’ll do it all empirically, Socratically, and utilizing osmosis. I want all A’s and honors.

Everything is teaching me. I’m no understudy; I am an apprentice of life. Teach me. Grip my heart like he has done - a man I understood and backed away from. Grip my heart like your scent does, your sunsets and lights, fires and quakes, your oceanic power.

My notebook is out; I’m all ears, Life! Slip me under your wing; let’s take a spin. I won’t make a sound; we’ll do it all empirically, Socratically, and utilizing osmosis. I want all A’s and honors.

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