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Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
you long to be on your grandmother’s lap again, to watch attentively as your mother applies her lipstick. but you no longer have the eyes of a child and your perception of the world is clouded by the pain of their absence. so you carry that tenderness with you as you move through the world. the intimacy you once bore witness to becomes a practice o... See more
A ★★★★★ review of All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
Gratitude becomes the color with which I paint your memory; this is intentional. Change is hard for me becomes change is a human inevitability, but I can see how your presence has guided the trajectory. I think of how I am a patchwork quilt of all the people I have loved and of all the people who have loved me. When I drink coffee, I feel the warmt
... See moreThis pain of bliss will recur in all the moments of happiness in My Struggle. The more attached he is to what he sees, the more vulnerable he is to bereavement. But this agony is also part of what enlivens and deepens his experience. If he could not lose his proximity to Anne Lisbet, he would have no sense of the miracle of being close to her. Ther
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though y
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