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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

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
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
Around the Rings of Saturn
All About Love

Around the Rings of Saturn

August 19, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JAMES SNOW
Falling in love with someone in a foreign city poses the question: is it the person or the place I’m really in love with?

Tagged Istanbul, love, music, relationship, romance, Travel, turkeyLeave a comment
All About Love

The Curse

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHRIS JANSEN –
The default state of all intelligent human beings is confusion. And what if ‘living your truth’ is just flinging yourself into another delusion?

Tagged confusion, delusion, sex, short story, therapy, truthLeave a comment
Between Writers
All About Love

Between Writers

November 18, 2021November 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY OCTAVIA ROSKO –
Modern romance isn’t Shakespearean declarations of unrequited love, it’s mostly people who just don’t text back.

Tagged dating, love, romance, textingLeave 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

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