and so I shall begin to publicly document my thoughts, removed from the temptation to be directed by the intelligence offered. this is a practice in transparency for the self, a practice in vulnerability, a practice in exposing personal creative expression. a lifetime of writing in private journals, composing notes of tenderness, exploring and dissecting my stories. my personal experience of layering words upon themselves, enjoying the way they sit, the way they land on one another. rarely sharing what I have written. far too familiar with the tension of what I believe myself to be, compared to how I believe others perceive me. to release that, what an unknown.