From David Whyte (audio here). “We tend to think of vulnerability as a kind of weakness, something to be walked around. But it’s interesting to look at the origin of the word, from the Latin word “vulneras,” meaning “wound.” It’s really the place where you’re open to the world, whether you want to be orContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO”
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FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX
From Toni Morrison’s Beloved via Maria Popova. “Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon — everything belonged to the men who had the guns. Little men, some of them, big men too, each oneContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX”
FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO
Adrienne Rich on love via Maria Popova. An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to doContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO”
THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR
Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert, letter no. 202, late 1870s (photo). “You are too momentous.”
THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE
John O’Donohue via Maria Popova (and this too, on anam cara). The Greeks … raised the eye beyond the horizon and recognized the heavenly patterns of the cosmos. There they glimpsed a vision of order which was to become the heart of their understanding of beauty. All the frailty and uncertainty was seen to be ultimatelyContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE”
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX
I love this little thought from Alain de Botton. “At the heart of sulk lies a confusing mixture of intense anger and an equally intense desire not to communicate what one is angry about. The sulker both desperately needs the other person to understand and yet remains utterly committed to doing nothing to help themContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX”
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX
For M, from How To Keep Loving Someone. “You have to love someone in the cracks between the big moments. You have to grab their hand when you’re sitting on the couch watching Shark Tank together and you have to give them a little knowing look that says, “I see you and I love you here inContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX”
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