I listened to mitski for the first time in maybe a month again today. all the old songs again, Francis Forever , I Bet On Losing Dogs , and a couple newer ones too that I never got to share with her. Bug Like An Angel, and my favourite song from the new album - Buffalo Replaced. I save mitski for special occasions when I can feel it building up and I need to release, need some help to cry. Catharsis, from Greek katharos , "pure". I sometimes find myself using the word "pure" to describe to myself a sense of unbridled uninhibited emotion and a strong sense of being fully alive. It can be joyful or painful or both or neither. What the actual feeling itself is is secondary to the fact that you experience it fully. You are there, breathing, feeling, alive. Over the past few years I structured my life around chasing these experiences with the firm belief that they would enrich me and fill my life to the brim. I think I was pretty successful. But I've been having...