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delicate & public property before they’re real and then private when things are solid and good
Jan 28, 2024
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This was really impactful for me; the analogy is, your life/your heart is a room (or an apartment, a space, etc) and relationships are all about inviting people into that room. Intimacy is letting them into the room and knowing that they might touch stuff, move furniture around, or change the way you’ve laid the room out. Transparency is letting people see the room, but keeping a glass between them and the space— they can see, but not touch. I think relationally we all have impulses toward transparency instead of intimacy, and it’s easy to say “I let you look at my room, that was intimacy,” while maintaining the glass that separates people from the room. Be intimate! Let people pick up the tchotchkes in your heart and move the furniture.
May 28, 2024
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...you don't know who they are yet, or who they're going to be in your life...
...and that is a wonderful thing."
May 22, 2024
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To yourself, to others etc. may be obvious but reframes how I view my relationship with literally every single person. this thought announced itself to me very loudly and had to be shared.
Feb 2, 2024
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Delicious anticipation of danger
Jan 28, 2024
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We know what we like! And we can collect things and surround ourselves with things that make us happy! And we know what music we like and what our style is! Middle School me would be so proud.
Feb 20, 2024
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“I love your New Year email and to be included in some of your young adult life - such a period of awareness of the world around you. Where you fit and the way the world wraps around you. Everything is so fresh.
I was touched by your feeling that you don’t know where home is any more. Is home about the people we love more than bricks and mortar as we move through the world? I think you and I are very alike. We treasure places as our anchors…What are the words to describe the feeling of a memory? The murmur of indistinct voices around a dinner table; the warmth of a family gathered around a fire; the feeling in your heart when things are good; a sudden flash of something from long ago revived by a smell or a sound. Although I think I have a good memory for the actual places themselves, the warmth and love I feel for them is really the people whom I remember there.”
Jan 28, 2024