Like every wounded child I just wanted to turn back time and be in that paradise again, in that moment of remembered rapture where I felt loved, where I felt a sense of belonging.
We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart's longing. (...) When that mourning ceased I was able to love again.
to live consciously we have to engage in critical reflection about the world we live in and know most intimately.
~ bell hooks, All About Love
it was a day of many things. many thoughts. many impacts. I think the overall balance came out in the positive.
especially today, all love to my jentober and her blaine and their W.
What I'm currently reading as of this morning. From left to right:
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer season four (it's a text, kind of)
2. Sextrology
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers
4. Yale Companion to Chaucer
5. God Is Not Great
6. Queer By Choice
7. The Canterbury Tales
8. Killing Rage
9. Savoir Flair!
10. Talking to Anxiety
11. Moby Dick
12. Wilde: The Major Works
13. Wilde: The Soul of Man and Prison Writings
14. Carol (alternate title: The Price of Salt)
