Sarah Kay

One is a quote from the poet Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoy, and it comes from her poem that the whole title is, On this, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we reconsider the buoyancy of the human heart, which is one of my favorite poems.

And you can find a video of me reading it online.

That's a poem that I revisit multiple times a year.

Hmm.

the poet and writer Hanif Abdurraqib has a story in one of his books where I think it's in There's Always This Year, where he talks about getting to meet a famous astronaut.

And he got to ask one question.

And his question was, when you were up there, were you scared?

And his answer was, yes, of course, but never more than I was curious.

And I think that that's really helpful as a guideline for me.

Like, yeah, realizations and self-realizations and discoveries about the world can be scary.

And I am so curious about myself and the world that I live in and letting that curiosity take the steering wheel.

Like fear can be in the car, but it doesn't get to drive.

Yeah.

Okay.

I don't know.

That's a predictive question, a prediction I won't make.

But what I would say is it makes me sad when people delegate the parts of themselves that make them human to the non-humans.

Because it means you're robbing yourself of those opportunities to be as human as possible.

And so like, you know, when people are like, oh, you can just get the AI to write your wife a love letter, I guess.

But do you think your wife wants like a well-scripted AI written love letter?