my god do you remember not being acutely aware of the fact youre a girl?? it must have been when i was 11 or 10 maybe. emily bronte saying ‘i wish i were a girl again, half savage and hardy and free’. do you find yourself envying dogs and birds or anything that doesn’t have to be pretty to live?
today I learned that there’s a town in Quebec where a bunch of people grow giant pumpkins, and on one very special day a year, cut them up, empty them, and use them as a canoe. then have a race. a pumpkin race. it’s even called ‘the potirothon’, from potiron (pumpkin) and marathon.
if it happened at all, it happened like that 