welcome, my name is sharon akosua you can call me sharon or kos~ i like to write as an act of archiving my own mythology. i hope my writing moves other...
My neighborhood is vibrating with the promise of summer. For someone who enjoys the mundane it doesn't take much to excite me. Of late, when I take my daily walk to work or around the streets that make up my community, I have been absolutely dazzled. Of course, this happens every year. Blue and white cotton clouds backdrop every shade of green in creation, verdant and alive. Chlorophyll-filled…
I told myself at the end of my "social sabbatical" in March that I would extend my Instagram break until June. June looms and extending it through the end of the year feels like the path I will most likely take. I have still been quite active on other social media platforms including my old tumblr account, where I post daily without too much thought, in a way that briefly takes me back to 2014 and…
On the plane ride from Reykjavík to JFK I was supposed to be sitting alone in an exit seat and things had to get turned around so I ended up sitting in the exit seat across the aisle next to a Belgian woman who was traveling with her two sons and father for a big holiday. Her father was 83 and had always wanted to go to Graceland so they were going to take a plane from Newark to Tennessee and then…
In four days my social sabbatical ends with a quiet, sweet but anti-climactic hum. I leave for New York this weekend to see some friends I've missed and then will bid farewell to the continent for the first time in my life to visit a new unexpected sweetie who has been transforming and expanding my heart space. Several things have changed in my internal and material worlds, but I have been feeling…
I am approaching the end of month 2 of my "social sabbatical" and one of the things I have been thinking about it is what I want my relationship to technology and social media to look like. I've been slowly making exits from many of my social media spaces over the last 5 years. It started with Twitter in 2024, when I realized that scrolling through my feed after 15 minutes or less left me feeling…
i started the new year by sweating profusely to a juliana huxtable b2b michael magnan set for almost three hours straight in a giant warehouse at 1:00 in the afternoon on new years day. raving every quarter from mid-morning to the late afternoon is the greatest morale boosting discovery 2025 offered me. at the end of december i received a 3 hour long reading from my friend tahnee who has been…
Dom sent me an essay they wrote several years ago called “Articulating the Current” after a class where the two of us spent an hour or so harvesting tangy hibiscus calyxes and talking in that mercurial manner, where there’s lots of looking away, looking back at one another and the feeling that time could hold the conversation for however long it needed to happen. We spent the harvest time…
There is an essay about romance that I have been writing, editing and gestating for two years and it has been that one piece of writing that prevents me from sharing all of my other writing. I think to myself, "If I just post this one post, then I can get on with my life and my writing practice!" Has that ever happened to you? It feels like a very particular form of procrastination. I am currently…
"For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness." Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic" ｡𖦹°‧ For as long as I can remember, whenever I…
One of my favorite astrologers recently wrote a blog post about sharing writing on the internet . There were several key takeaways, the most significant being the entire paragraph about "Lowering Your Expectations." Ace writes, " If your expectations are too high, then you’re going to get trapped in perfectionism. You’ll never share your writing and that means that your ideas won’t leave you and…