a labor of self-love, echoes the practice of ancestral chronology: merging pasts, futures, with the present through a continual process of remembering, maintaining, mitigating, decomposing, reimagining, stewarding, regenerating; anti-linearity; an identity isn't linear, and the act of separating us from our experiences all while cherishing them is this practice of embracing the self as a mesh, a collection, a carrier-bag, rather than a timeline or a label.