The truth of any love, a lesson you learn after the first, is that with love often comes pain. The two exist entwined. They are necessary opposites that give each other meaning–pulling in opposite directions creating the tension needed to stand upright. Read More
As a society, we have romanticized the notion of suffering; we are so drawn to the idea of suffering that we cannot look away when we see it, and we cannot give it up when we experience it. Read More
We are, as the philosophers put it, defined by our will to do better. We are perpetually striving. Read More
Winter urges us inwards; into our apartments, into our beds, into our ourselves. It is the season for sadness, or rather, self-reflection. Read More
We spend so much time together in a way I feel off balance without him. It’s an odd effect that generally only lasts the first day or so of being apart. But it creeps up in the side of my mind, like I forgot something but I’m not sure what. Read More
They say living in the past is what causes depression, so have no past. She was choosing to have no past – to not let a person exist only in a former state of her being. Read More
Sometimes to move on you have to actually move. Move through space. Move across the earth. Move physically elsewhere. Read More
Fascinating that under a blanket of ice sleep Spring’s new miracles. My father is a gardener, and so I identify with the species that waits until the frost has passed to begin again. Read More
Truly, the way she viewed her life was through the lilt of poetry. Words cradling all love and fear and hopes in their sinewy formations; stringy and tough and dependable are words. Read More