You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little … - Kevin Brockmeier

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I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.

Kevin Brockmeier

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.

Nudges, People, Presume, Rocks, Send, Wind

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I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

Age, Bound, Growing Up, Life, Mind, Reach

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Beneath, Boys, Given, Might, Sky

What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

Effort, Immersive, Long, Memoir, Reflective, Writing

I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.

Invested, Might, Mistake, Reassure, Sometimes, Wholly

I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

Confusion, Generate, Life, Opposites, Tangle, Thinking