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Romantic Love
Sunbeams
March 1981Love is when I am concerned with your relationship with your own life, rather than with your relationship to mine. . . . There must be a commitment to each other’s well-being. Most people who say they have a commitment don’t; they have an attachment. Commitment means, “I am going to stick with you and support your experience of well-being.” Attachment means, “I am stuck without you.”
Sunbeams
January 1981We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Insisting On Love
Oh you modest-living professional little bastards, giving in to all that mortgaged decency, all those inner rules of silence, as if the spirit of youth was an aberration to be got over and not the event itself, the event of your life, the adventure you ended up betraying for a house in Twit Acres and 2.3 kids you won’t ever understand.
January 1981No Enemies, Except Ourselves
Book Review
Women conspire to be manipulated and used while simultaneously controlling others in subtle but equally manipulative ways, and neither behavior is necessary, to be who we are.
October 1980Cartoon By Steven Fisher
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October 1980How Men See Women, How Women See Men
As a butterfly surveying a flowerbed, as objects, not very clearly at all
October 1980One Hundred Years Of Solitude — An Appreciation
We forget, until a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude reminds us, that a metaphor can be a glimpse into the interconnectedness of things, and as such, a large new breath of possibility to our pallid imaginings of self.
May 1980
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