Cat Jenkins’ Post

Great piece, and one I know to be true from personal experience. “Sit down by me and we will talk. If you are in any trouble tell it to me, and perhaps you will talk the heaviest part away” – so says the philosopher in James Stephens’s Crock of Gold to a distressed young woman he has found walking alone down the road. It really is as simple as that. And as excruciatingly difficult. The heaviest part of our suffering is being alone". https://lnkd.in/efvsXeyG

Good to see.

Good piece.

Wonderful.

Feels as though almost any wholesome, creation-caring activism is being criminalised....

A beautiful piece. For the whole thing, click below. "In a tribute to her partner and collaborator Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson wrote: “I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.” Love is a lot like grief. It’s rarely pure, sweet and easy. It can be heavy and painful. It can rush in like a tide, buoying us up, and knocking us down. It doesn’t have a sense of proportion. We don’t love in direct correlation to the amount we are loved. If I was more guarded with my love, maybe I’d have a more straightforward relationship with my grief. But I’m lucky in love – it fills my life. I have a lot of feelings for a lot of people and I’ve learned that there is as much wonder in loving as there is in being loved. Inevitably, this will lead to grief, concentric circles of it lapping my heart. And it will never be dignified or appropriate. It will be vast and wild, the same size as the cast of people who make my life brighter."