On Beliefs & Me.
I believe in any religion rooted in love. I believe that if you’ve tried your best to be a good person, if you’ve known regret and sought forgiveness, if you’ve loved then whatever comes after this life will meet you gently.
I believe in ghosts. In the flicker of something just out of sight. In the cold air that wraps around your spine and leaves without explanation.
I believe in premonitions. In the kind of knowing that has no logic but all the truth.
I believe salt protects you. I believe in lucky charms, in rituals passed down quietly between women. I believe you should never open an umbrella indoors. I believe you should never sweep the house at night because your mother could die. I believe in turning the broom upside down behind the door so that no bad energy walks in.
I believe in accidents, but also in the invisible threads pulling us toward what we’re meant to find.
I believe in love at first sight.
I believe in love that arrives later in life, love that comes after divorce, after heartbreak, after the children are grown and you’ve finally learned to be alone.
I believe in love that finds you when you’ve stopped believing in it.
I believe in second chances, and third ones too.
I believe in the beauty of morning light. Sunrises are softer than sunsets. They promise beginnings.
I believe in art, in stories, in the kind of book or film that unsettles something inside you and rearranges your bones.
I believe inspiration can be found in opera, in sculpture, in the curve of a leaf, in a single line of poetry whispered to no one.
I believe modern art still has something to say. I’m not so sure about the contemporary.
I believe in astrology, not as doctrine, but as delightful fiction.
I believe in walking to soothe yourself. In running to keep from screaming. In yoga as an offering to the body that carries you. In taking deep baths as a ritual form of cleansing negativity off your body.
I believe that demanding parents often raise rebellious children.
I believe in heavy blood.
I believe in buying one piece of jewelry in every country I visit, so that the memory is something I can wear.
I believe the moon is a woman and the sun is a man.
I believe the world is getting louder and somehow, dumber.
I believe technology, though impressive, is mostly empty.
I believe I am destined for something bigger than this moment, though I don’t yet know its shape.
I believe I am what I believe in, and what I don’t.
