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Tag: Love

February 14, 2022 Of cabbages and kings

Here’s to the Maybes

Here’s to the Maybes, the Almosts, the Ones told “I can’t”, the Ones busied away. Do you ever think about where they must go Once you’ve relegated them to a footnote?

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February 13, 2022 Locke

A Single Guy’s (Positive) Take on Valentine’s Day

If you’re in a good relationship, celebrate that today. Don’t patronize your single friends. Don’t act like you forgot the day. Even a bog standard date on Valentine’s Day ain’t a horror show.

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3d human with a red question mark
April 24, 2021 Of cabbages and kings

On Wants and Wanteds

I want to get to know you… slowly, so slowly, always searching, never caring about the destination
I wanted to hold your hand and feel you squeeze mine back

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October 28, 2020 Locke

On the Fragility of Our Connections

On the nature & fragility of friendship, of love & its connections & how people so often change the connections they have always known.

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October 3, 2020 Locke

Letting Go of Ourselves to Gain Something of Someone Else

On the concept of letting go, sacrificing a smidge of control in one’s life in the pursuance of love, of relationships etc…

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awkward silences
August 31, 2020 Demosthenes

Chemistry, Conversation and the Theatre of Awkward

Wouldn’t it be nice just to have someone to talk to…. Maybe over a pot of gumbo on a lazy Sunday evening. But I am still picky?

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Fear is the heart of love
July 3, 2020 Locke

Fear is the Heart of Love

“Fear is the heart of love” Towards the end of a recent Peloton class, I heard the preceding lyric from a Death Cab for

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heartbreak
June 24, 2020 Correspondence

A Thought on Putting Oneself Out There

Thoughts on the nature and development of friendship and relationships and the risks we take or don’t have to take.

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February 18, 2015 Locke

8 Months Later, I Still Miss My Doggy

Eight months ago, I had to put my dog to sleep. Oreo was about 12-14 years old; I had him for six of the

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February 14, 2013 Demosthenes

A St. Valentine’s Day Request

On this most noxious of days, I only ask that the couples of the world (esp the ladies) NOT fucking complain about their so-called

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