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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
Ranier Maria Rilke by Gerhard Richter
Book Bits

Rilke and the Labors of Love

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 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
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Book Bits

The Love of Particulars and the Dignity of Difference

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

According to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, it’s our uniqueness that defines our humanity and opens the path to knowing God and Universal Love.

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j-krishnamurti
Book Bits

Love and Death are Inseparable

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jiddu Krishnamurti’s diaries reveal his ‘process’ and daily engagement with the the experience of his own consciousness and encounters with the unknown.

Tagged destruction, Diary, Journal, Meditation, observation, purity, reflectionLeave a comment
Natalia Ginzburg
Book Bits

Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Pursuing our vocations and allowing our children the space to develop their own, are, according to Natalia Ginzburg, paramount in raising healthy children and developing healthy relationships with them as they grow.

Tagged Children, education, love of life, passion, Silence, Virtue, vocation1 Comment
Florence Scovel Shinn
Book Bits

Florence Scovel Shinn and the Game of Love

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Published in 1925, The Game of Life and How to Play It was a trailblazing tome of self-help literature couched in positive thinking and affirmative actions.

Tagged divine, Fear, jealousy, love, positive thinking, selflessnessLeave a comment
Sharon Salzberg
Book Bits

Better Than We Think: Directing Self-Love

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

Sharon Salzberg on why the richest way of loving means starting with our very selves.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, guilt, Kindness, love, Loving-Kindness, Meditation, metta, remorse, self-love, TheravadaLeave a comment
Cuong Lu
Book Bits

The Vast Blue Ocean – Cuong Lu’s Love Letter to Those in Despair

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cuong Lu’s new book is a communication of companionship and compassion, addressed to people in states of deep suffering.

Tagged consciousness, grief, ocean, Reality, waves, Wisdom1 Comment
Anne Hillman
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Anne Hillman – We Look With Uncertainty

October 1, 2021September 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Hillman’s poem about uncertainty and regeneration acknowledges the vulnerability of human existence ‘which is every moment / at the brink of death’, standing, waiting, ‘learning to love.’

Tagged aliveness, humanity, love, uncertainty, vulnerability1 Comment

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