Author Archives: Ariel Starzinski

it’s been a wild five months, and not in the best possible way. rather than recounting the many ways in which the better part of this year has fucked with my head, i’ll say: i’m working on ways to better work through the myriad of intense emotion it’s brought to the surface. i’ve been missingContinue reading “basic”

“strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention.” -MPD150- So much of political discourse centers itself around semantics rather than the actual ideas it seeks to have implemented. I understand the importance of accurately portraying ideas, and no doubt semantics has its place and purpose,Continue reading “defund”

Let’s embrace the beauty of what we get to be now. -Jonathan Van Ness- A whole new year. Every birthday, I’m thankful I’ve been given another year of life to live. This one even more than others, given the state of our world and recent events. COVID-19 and George Floyd’s murder have brought to bearContinue reading “36”

I spend a lot of time overthinking and not writing because I’m scared my words won’t come out the way I want them to.  Deep breath. Here I am anyway. Feeling uncertain, a little untethered, and also ready to take a plunge into the unfamiliar and let my words be what they will. When IContinue reading “The Worth of Words”

“Compared to clouds, life rests on solid ground,  practically permanent, almost eternal…” -Wislawa Szymborska- I’m not sure I’ve ever felt a real, true sense of security that I am firmly tethered to the ground. There have been enough moments in life that have swept me away on their wavelengths, either for good or for bad.Continue reading “Clouds”

“I think, therefore I am.” -Descartes I run. —> I am a runner. I write. —> I am a writer. I teach. —> I am a teacher. I parent. —> I am a parent.  It is compelling to me how the things we humans choose or are obligated to do so swiftly become part ofContinue reading “Verb—>Identity”

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” -J.R.R. Tolkien- I’m finally taking the plunge and making a space to share things that I have written with other humans on this big, beautiful (and sometimes sort of strange) planet. I have always felt extremely vulnerable in havingContinue reading “Tempus Fugit (time flies)”

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the Universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”Continue reading “Myself”