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John O Donohue
Book Bits

The Most Real and Creative Form of Human Presence: John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship

March 25, 2022March 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.

Tagged belonging, celtic, companionship, friendship, guide, love, recognition, soul friend, Teacher, UnderstandingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

February 20, 2022February 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.

Tagged childhood, friendship, nature, nature writing, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, wilderness, wildness, youthLeave a comment
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

On Being Plan B

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELIZABETH BLUE The car that had been broken into wasn't mine. It wasn't his, either. Technically it belonged to his girlfriend – his primary partner of fifteen years.

Tagged ambiguity, difficulty, friendship, Longing, love, monogamy, polyamory, relationship, togetherness, triangulationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brandon McQuade – Two Whiskies

August 8, 2021August 7, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Brandon McQuade's poem, 'Two Whiskies', is a melancholy narrative of the author's dream of a late friend.

Tagged Death, death poem, dream, dreaming, Dreams, Friend, friendship, grief, loss, memories, memory, PoetryLeave a comment
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly – When William Stafford Died

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

After the death of the poet William Stafford in 1993, his friend Robert Bly wrote this tribute against the image of water flowing down the rocks of Montana gullies.

Tagged acceptance, Affection, current, Death, flow, friendship, homage, Poetry, Stream, tributeLeave a comment
Sanctuary - Kent Jacobson
All About Love

Sanctuary

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY KENT JACOBSON A baseball field was a sanctuary for a small community of boys who were surrounded by angry fathers they were too young to understand.

Tagged baseball, childhood, community, friendship, memory, sanctuary, Violence1 Comment
Gin and Coconut Curry
All About Love

Gin and Coconut Curry

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY CHAPIN CIMINO What stays with us over the decades: Navigating the grey mists of love and affection by the quirky light of a college friendship.

Tagged desire, friendship, love, passion, relationship4 Comments
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Bits

True Relations in a False Age – Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

For the former Unitarian minister, relations with other people evoke in us the call towards both truth and tenderness, asking at their highest level not for daintiness, but for the 'roughest courage.

Tagged Courage, friendship, hipocrisy, love, Relationships, sincerity, Transcendentalism, truth3 Comments
Du Fu
Chinese Poetry, Poetry

Du Fu – Dreaming of Li Bai

March 18, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

'This parting from the living brings constant pain,' wrote eighth-century Chinese poet Du Fu in an ode to friendship about his separation from Li Bai, who was in exile in the south of the country.

Tagged 2020, Dreaming of Li Bai, Du Fu, exile, friendship, Li Bai, Poetry, separation, Tu FuLeave a comment

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