Love Bhakti #4: Hopelessly Devoted

I’ll never forget the first time I was conscious of being attracted to another woman.
I was probably about 18 or so, and had driven down for the weekend to Rutgers to visit the curious world of college life and a couple of my high school friends currently living it. We were making our way to [...]

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Love Bhakti #3: Ready For Love

I was contemplating topics for this week’s Love Bhakti when I came across this video. It’s one of my favorite songs ever, and in a long-ago journal entry I’d written about coming to understand it. How, when I first heard it, I thought it was just an uncommonly gorgeous love song to a specific person; [...]

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Love Bhakti #2: Fool for Love

Inspired again this week by something in a friend’s post, I wanted to devote this week’s Love Bhakti to the idea that, because of the interconnection of all things, loving others is a valuable act of self-love– and conversely, treating yourself lovingly is good for the world.
Many are the pop psychologists and self-help gurus who [...]

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Love Bhakti #1: Bloom Where You’re Planted

This Friday’s love bhakti was inspired by a tangent in a discussion on another friend’s journal. (Her awesome mom’s comments lent me the title of this post.) In talking about day jobs and survival, we were talking about the importance of the perspective you take towards it, and how to be happy in a job [...]

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