What is the most free you have ever felt, and was it at the same time the most crazy? The most intoxicating? If you did not edit yourself, would you seem insane?
Posts Tagged ‘love’
It seems awkward, or unexpected, or untoward to say how you feel, so you don’t. It seems like you have a friendship, a rapport, maybe a better chance to say it later, to lose. But things have a way; they conspire to lose you the things you are trying not to lose.
I want to live in a world where pearls cannot be sold or traded, only given; cannot be formed or manufactured, only discovered. I want us to forswear jewelry stores and aquaculture, to dive for treasure without wetsuits or scuba tanks. I have been training to hold my breath. The pearl I am saving was [...]
Seven seconds is an eternity in eye contact—a heart-pausing eternity. Do you remember amazing moments of eye contact with strangers? Have you ever wanted to talk to a stranger with whom you have just made eye contact?
Have you ever gotten almost to the point of just telling someone how you feel, and then backed off? Have you left many almost-confessions behind you?
I don’t have a plan in the world. I have the wide open sky and a bag of dried mangoes. My last girlfriend called them slices of sunshine. I have kept the phrases my friends and I made up. A teenager is “a case of ginger ale”, empty praise from the human resources director is [...]
Have you ever made a commitment you thought you wanted, then been relieved when it became impossible to fulfill?


