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Derek Walcott
Poetry

Derek Walcott – Love After Love

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Vanessa Able

A gentle and joyful invitation to intimacy and love towards ourselves by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott.

Tagged Compassion, love, self-love, self-reflectionLeave a comment
All About Love

A Love Letter to Nathaniel

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY KATE TAGAI –
Love only needs an instant to unfurl, and no one knows this better than the mother of a child she only knew for a few days.

Tagged Death, grief, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood2 Comments
All About Love

Malignant – A Love Story

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CYNDY CENDAGORTA
As her friend fell sick while she fell in love, she realized we don’t get to choose our miracles or our malignancies.

Tagged Death, friendship, illness, love, miracles, relationship, triangulation1 Comment
All About Love

Öö

August 26, 2023August 24, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY ÇILER İLHAN –
What seems like a flame, passion or romance perhaps is actually love, emerging in various forms, shapes, and levels of existence. If you believe in it.

Tagged affair, desire, fiction, love, romance, short storyLeave a comment
All About Love

Songbird Birdsong

August 7, 2023August 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY PAMELA AYO YETUNDE –
A retelling of the Buddhist legend of Kisa Gotami, bereaved mother Keisha comes to a Buddhist Monastery for guidance.

Tagged bereavement, Compassion, Death, fiction, grief, loss, motherhood, parenthood, short story, Suffering, WisdomLeave a comment
All About Love

Passersby

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JOANN STEVELOS –
What happens when an abandoned child grows up and one day buries her estranged father

Tagged abandonment, Compassion, Death, father, grief, Loneliness, metta meditation, parents2 Comments
All About Love

To Walk the Stones

March 4, 2022March 24, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY MATTHEW WILLIS –
What the stones at Kyoto’s Jishu Jinja shrine can teach us and warn us about love in our lives

Tagged eros, games, Japan, Kyoto, love, philia, ritual, romance, shrine, stones, theaterLeave a comment
Danielle Pieratti
Poetry

Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

Danielle Pieratti’s ‘Rubric for Burying a Hen’ is a heartbreaking account of what it is to fail to sustain someone or something in our care.

Tagged Death, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood, self-acceptanceLeave a comment
E.E. Cummings
Book Bits

E.E. Cummings – Let It Go—The

May 27, 2022May 31, 2022 Vanessa Able

E.E. Cummings reflects on the necessity of clearing, of letting go of the things we cling to, in order to make way for love.

Tagged Advice, clearing, letting go, love, Poetry1 Comment
Ranier Maria Rilke by Gerhard Richter
Book Bits

Rilke and the Labors of Love

April 2, 2021March 24, 2023 Vanessa Able

Rilke stresses the importance of work in relationship and cautions against the youthful fancy that romance is the domain of play and pleasure.

Tagged Advice, coupling, Experience, love, maturity, Relationships, workLeave a comment

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