What is your definition of alive? Mine is experiencing this love, and staying true to my commitment to finding my way back to it whenever I have lost my way. And to be clear– this love never depends on what I have or haven’t accomplished, doesn’t even care that I’m a poet who wants to make beauty, because I am, we are, without any doing, beauty.... See more

Why were we taught that to be worthy of our own love we have to be exceptional?