https://vimeo.com/391470213 Love, true love, makes possible what was previously impossible. "In this short film from the UK director William Williamson, [French philosopher Alain] Badiou argues that today’s approach to relationships, with its consumerist tendency to focus on choice and compatibility, and the ingrained refrain to move on when things aren’t easy, means that we need … Continue reading Risk Defines Love
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Wanting to Die
"Which I suppose calls the question: is it ever possible to really, really want to die when we have people we love here on earth?"—Courtney E. Martin, "Birth and Death in the Bathtub." courtney.substack.com. November 16, 2019.
Sometimes It Snows in April — Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZgBhSMSUM Strangely, I first heard this version of this song. I don't know why it took so long. It has quickly become a favorite. "Sometimes it snows in AprilSometimes I feel so bad, so badSometimes I wish that life was never ending,But all good things, they say, never lastAll good things they say, never lastAnd … Continue reading Sometimes It Snows in April — Prince
Reading Harry Potter as a Sacred Text
"What if we take this seriously? What gifts is it going to give us if we love something, and we love it with rigor, and we love it with commitment?" —Reading Harry Potter as a Sacred Text Strikes me as an important question for many things in our lives that we trivialize because they aren't … Continue reading Reading Harry Potter as a Sacred Text
David Byrne on Love – Believer Magazine
"Love, it seems to me, is a joyous self-deception, practiced by two people at the same time. No one is as wonderful as the object of one’s love appears to be, and yet who among us would trade that illusion for the truth? Being an illusion, it is not real, but despite not being something … Continue reading David Byrne on Love – Believer Magazine
6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
"The fastest, easiest and most inadvertent technique for messing up one’s life remains that of getting into a serious relationship with the wrong person: with very little effort, and without any innate taste for catastrophe, one can end up – by middle age or earlier – contemplating wholesale financial ruin, loss of parental rights, social … Continue reading 6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
Love: A Short Film
Alienation at Home
"Who is going to be brave enough to ask where home is, and seek out something else if they don't like the answer?"-Hanif Abdurraqib, "Under Half-Lit Fluorescents: The Wonder Years and the Great Suburban Narrative," in "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us." Columbus, Ohio: Two Dollar Radio, 2017. I remember the moment I … Continue reading Alienation at Home
Do the People You Care About Love You Back?
"Did I devote enough time to my family? Did I learn enough new things? Did I develop new friendships and deepen old ones?" —Jenny Anderson, "The only metric of success that really matters is the one we ignore." Quartz. March 12, 2019. Probably better to not ask the question at all than believe the answer … Continue reading Do the People You Care About Love You Back?
The Spirit of Good Will
I was reading How to Think by Alan Jacobs, and he makes this really insightful comment: "Genuine community is open to questioning from people of good will." He makes a distinction between cliques and in-groups, where conforming to certain ideas are the condition for acceptance, and genuine community, where the communities are open to dialogue … Continue reading The Spirit of Good Will
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