multitudes
"There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness and this is neither. This season is about becoming."
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"Everyone is, in fact, alone. Being contractually tied to another person—in marriage, for example—accentuates the loneliness, because you have effectively allowed the state to determine your obligations to someone, as if you can’t trust and manage your own feelings by yourself. Anyway, I see humans as essentially solitary creatures, and this is not changed by surrounding ourselves with others, because they, too, are solitary. Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing."
Rookie » This Charming Man: An Interview With Morrissey
reflecting on solitude lately, this reminded me of a Warsan Shire quote that I love:
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
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Happy Loving Day →
This week marks the 45th anniversary of a seminal moment in the civil rights movement: the legalization of interracial marriage. But the couple at the heart of the landmark Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia never intended to be in the spotlight.
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