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Eden Ariel's avatar

Talk about startling prose!! I relate, I resonate. This was absolutely beautiful. 💜

jesse's avatar

Thank you♡

Alice Clara's avatar

Dauntingly good. My gosh, you are a genius. Thank you. I haven’t felt moved by a piece in a long time and you changed that for me. Anodyne for the spirit---everything down to the photographs and the commentary on the Feeling (surrendering to it or keeping it at a knife’s edge, ready to spar---en garde!) So, so good. Thank you dearly ❤️

jesse's avatar

Thank you so much for the kind words Alice, I appreciate it more than you know ♡ !

tabi's avatar

I also just went to a screening of ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ and have been feeling The Feeling - Thank You

jesse's avatar

it’s very evocative!

Barnaby's avatar

I am completely obsessed, feeling so seen on such a deep level it’s uncanny and written with such finesse! Ah! In love and terrified ♥️

jesse's avatar

Thank you thank you♡

Caroline's avatar

Holy hell this is incredible

Andrew Leonine's avatar

Hmm. I don't know, but I have the feeling you're onto something. Something important. I say that with the same conviction that the space baby in the final image of 2001: A Space Odyssey says "...something beautiful." I hate essays that leave me staring blankly at the crease line where the wall opposite my bed intersects the ceiling. A weird little paralysis sets in and I become immobile and empty for a few minutes. I don't know how to process what I just read. Like walking into a massive cathedral. Reverent. Some sacred this way comes. What are you saying? I've overindulged on it. I'm sick with dumb ecstacy. Speechless.

Melissa Rhodes's avatar

Holy shit. Every time, Jesse, reading your writing is an experience of head, heart, soul, and spirit, the internal and external and everything in between. Your words are the path or the magic carpet or the bird - and then we, the reader, have another opportunity to join you. With The Feeling, I am struck, hard, by your courage, which might not feel like courage?? To acknowledge the painful and dangerous, which is more universal than most of us want to know - it's just around the corner from whatever holds us together. It's all in the same house - the beauty, wonder, awe, love... and the other stuff. Keep writing, please and thank you!!!

jesse's avatar

Thank you so so much Melissa :,)