"We would like a relationship, yes, but we do not want to get into bed with an elephant. [...] It could roll over in the night and crush us."
"Get close and it warms you up; get too close and you go down in flames"
(Circle of Fire, Andrew Solomon)

You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away and, for may be the first time that day, you see, with some clarity, the people you love, and the ways you have, during that day, slightly ignored them, turned away from them to get back to what you were doing, blurted out some mildly hirtful thing, ( Read more... )

You can live in the past, you can live in the future, or you can live now. This is your only true reality. Tomorrow will happen...
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Attachment is one of the biggest problem we have as human beings. The stronger you hold something, the more attached you get.
(Steve Friedman, Lost in America)
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Some people ease into your life as if they have  ( Read more... )

I knew I love to watch men cooking, not just any men but chefs ( Read more... )

travel is not about finding something: it's about getting lost - that is, it is about loosing yourself in a place and a moment.
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is it that when you travel you can invent yourself anew, and the new person you become is freer and more engaged and more engaging than the persona you left at home? and even if you are not in love, is this still what ( Read more... )

i've been reading it for... what?... over 6 months at least. taking it in page by page, then leaving it to rest for a week or a month, or even longer ( Read more... )