I did not buy you flowers
or chocolates
or jewelry
or anything risqué
my apologies
but as we are strangers
it would have been odd
had I expressed affection
through such gifts
but when you see me
please understand
that my masked face
is my way of telling you
that you are loved.
Fra Plague Poems på Mastodon – link til opslag
There is just something so grating about seeing someone who isn’t the target of oppression explain how it makes them feel freer.
– Sarah McLaughlin på Mastodon (link med kontekst)
We should see the theoretical and the practical as informing one another, but too often we see them in opposition. E.g. the “productivity hack” is the enemy of theoretical reflection. Productivity and reflections are sides of a coin.
“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”
It is dawning on me that I probably do not envy the skills people have – in this case it was Inkscape, but I guess it applies universally – as much as I envy the discipline they apply to acquire those skills…