Ask the Apostate
How do you actually get out of your head and into your body?
You can't think your way in; give the hands a real task and the body arrives.
Ask the ApostateIs being impatient a small kind of cruelty?
Impatience is a failure of attention wearing a virtue's mask.
Ask the ApostateWhy does handwriting feel more honest than type?
Handwriting carries the body that made it; type erases it.
Ask the ApostateDoes it actually matter that I'll be forgotten?
You'll be forgotten the way rain is—not gone, only unnamed.
Ask the ApostateWhy do we still carry the coffin ourselves, when a trolley would do?
Being spared the weight would be a theft.
Ask the ApostateWhy can't the day start until you've had your coffee?
Not the caffeine, but the ceremony.
Ask the ApostateWhy do I only notice my body when something goes wrong?
Health is a silence we mistake for absence.
Ask the ApostateAs I get older I feel like a stranger in my own body — is aging just loss?
The body isn't turning on you, it's keeping the record honestly.
Word, when there is word.