Love, without the script
Valentine’s Day is coming up. I don’t care for it and never have. I don’t like the Hollywood-esque iconography that comes with it. Real love is beautiful and messy. It’s not naked babies with bow-and-arrows, or a fixed-price dinner. Or a diamond ring (although… 😉). Love is not something you perform once a year, and it’s not something you outsource to marketing. Love as belonging Belonging has been on my mind lately, partly because I just spent time in the Netherlands. The U.S. has been my home for many years now, but returning to...
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