“Some dreams aren’t dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality,” Patti Smith wrote in Year of the Monkey — her exquisite dreamlike book-length prose poem about mending the broken realities of life, a meditation drawn from dreams that are “much more than dreams, as if originating from the dawn of mind.” As I…
Love should be gentle. Your partner shouldn’t treat you with disrespect, even when they’re angry with you, even when they’re in the middle of a heated argument with you, even when they cannot stand to look at you. Your partner should value you during your good and bad moments. They shouldn’t pick and choose when…
I (30M) am “fake dating” (it may be a long story) my friend’s very sick daughter (18F) because her doctors think she’ll die soon, my feelings are now real though and that I don’t know what to try and do
It is not often that one encounters a great love letter to a great love, composed by someone outside the private world of that love, serenading it across the spacetime of epochs and experiences. In my many years of dwelling in the lives and loves and letters of beloved artists, scientists, and writers, I have…
This post is the last part of this series “Dating With Depression”. You can read the first post about how you are out here, the second post about how to talk to your partner about mental health, and the third post about what your partner should know about your mental health here. As I was…
Aries You’re sick of people leaving. You want someone who stays. Taurus You feel like no one understands you. You just want someone on your side. Gemini You feel incomplete and are hoping the right person will be a stepping stone to making you feel whole. Cancer You grew up surrounded by love and you…
He was painted a right-on hero this week for creating a statue of the Black Lives Matter protester, Jen Reid. But has provocative artist Marc Quinn, who once made a bronze statue of supermodel Kate Moss in a compromising yoga position, been hoist by his own petard? For I can reveal his latest work, A…
1. The saddest thing in a relationship (that isn’t outwardly awful/abusive) is when someone dates another person because that person likes them. It’s like telling yourself that you aren’t good enough, so let’s settle for this person. I’ve seen a lot of ruined friendships because one person mistook the attraction of being loved with actually…
True Love is not only a feeling, rather it is everything in and out. The special bond which you share with someone special is addressed as Love. Now the question arises here is do you know what is a Perfect Love Story? Pure love is a feeling which makes you feel secure, happy, and joyous…
Why do people lie? Sometimes we lie without any thought, it just comes naturally, to some people sincerity is just too hard a rule to obey. Usually it is to conceal the truth to get ourselves out of trouble, or maybe to spare someones feelings, or the classic reason to get the day off work….
What do you do when you see a ‘bum’ on the street? Most of us would simply.. walk on by Does that make us bad people? Unkind? Selfish? To be honest, I myself have been homeless, I have slept rough before. It was definitely a low point in my life, it really is not a…
