getting into bed on a December night by Ellen Bass
““That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” - Kaui Hart Hemmings”
—
Athena Nassar, from "Love Is Not Always Song, but the Swelling"
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno
Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
100 Ghosts: 52/100
some say you can't love others properly until you love yourself, but i disagree. i've been poisoned against myself for years and years and i don't know if i'll ever love myself properly, but i love my friends and family with the kind of open-minded, dedicated love that i am trying to learn from. i forgive them their mistakes. i notice the way they smile. i want them to eat well. i want their showers to have perfect water pressure. i want to bake them pies and plant gardens with them. i want people to treat them well and i want them to stand up for themselves. i'm learning from my love for them how to love myself.
“Love is a choice as much as it is magic. Magic comes in moments, but choices stretch out over time. We make them new each morning.”
— Jamie Tworkowski