by samfrida | Mar 27, 2026 | Blog
There is a question I keep returning to, quietly, in the spaces between things.Can you exist without feeling? Technically, perhaps. The heart beats. The lungs expand. The body moves through the world, occupying space, consuming time. But is that living? I don’t think...
by samfrida | Mar 26, 2026 | Blog
On identity, resonance, and the quiet freedom of not fitting in. There is a version of belonging that asks you to shrink. To adopt the customs of a group, nod along to shared assumptions, and call it community. It feels like safety. Sometimes it even looks like...
by samfrida | Mar 26, 2026 | Blog
Some of us don’t think in straight lines. We circle. We return to the same memories, the same relationships, the same moments that cracked us open. Not because we’re stuck. Because each pass picks up something the last one missed. The first time around, it’s survival....
by samfrida | Mar 26, 2026 | Blog
Some of us had no choice but to become who we are.That’s not a complaint. It’s a reckoning. There comes a crossroad in life where the path splits, and neither direction is painless. One way keeps you in the familiar circle, surrounded by the people you’ve always...
by samfrida | Mar 21, 2026 | Blog
We are taught, early and often, to name what we are. Gay. Straight. Bisexual. Lesbian. The naming feels like arrival. Like finally having a word for a feeling that lived wordless inside you for years. And for many people, that word is a lifeboat. I don’t want to take...
by samfrida | Mar 20, 2026 | Blog
There’s a place I’ve arrived at that I can’t fully explain, and honestly, I’m not going to try. It’s not a destination I planned for. It’s more like a recognition. A quiet understanding that the bandwidth I have is finite, that my energy is currency, and I get to...
