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What symmetric delight to be able to “heart” this post

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I reread Anne Carson's EROS BITTERSWEET & am reminded at how "ancients" perceived eros as being kind of an traumatic sets of events. A kind of wounding, a soul wounding. This speaks to me. I think initially when I was invited to the, into the life of another, "romantically" which is a term I still struggle with, I had no concept of what to expect prior. I am on the other side now of that little boy and my understanding is wrought with a kind of gnarliness, a ghastliness, even. I don't know that I'd warm (warn) him though, either. I think I respect the way things choose to unfold before me. I let the self trust the rate at which information finds him and him it. You & Anne, I feel, have helped me respect the complex nature of love happenings. Instead of trying to understand it, respect it.

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