read on the trolley back from Mexico:

[listening]

"Love means nothing to me if it's not fortified with fierce, painful longing, brief explosive instances of furious passion and intimacy and then a sad parting for a time. I think some couples spend too much time together. They flatten out the potential for experience by constant closeness. Passion builds over time like steam. Let it rage until it's

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[declinedsorrows]

my exact words when i was done reading it "gawd that was so good"
it truly is amazing, i felt like, for the first time, my soul was read.

[listening]

i feel that way with a lot of the stuff he writes.
but this passage really affected me; it's about a lot more than romantic love. it made me realize why i don't want to write in here as much anymore, if at all.

[insomniacrocker]

care to explain yourself...

i'm curious about what that passage makes you want to stop posting.

[listening]

creative endeavors are a lot like relationships, and they can get weighed down by the mundane and the everyday and the repetitive, too. it's good to save up energy.

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[insomniacrocker]

i take it that was you posting under dan's user name...

i get what you mean though.

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[insomniacrocker]

Oh..

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[declinedsorrows]

well peace,love,empathy
"..skip a life completely, stuff it in a cup, she said money is like us in time, it lies but can't stand up, down for you is up"
just to let you know, i truly care about you as a friend.

[listening]

*smile* i appreciate that.