Tag: relationships
Beyond the Shell: Understanding Difference
If the flowers of a garden were all of one color, the effect would be monotonous to the eye; but if the colors are variegated, it is most pleasing and wonderful. The difference in adornment of color and capacity of reflection among the flowers gives the garden its beauty and charm.
Consultative Relational Research
Consultative Relational Research speaks to a model of service and a pivotal research focus. Our version of consultative research builds from the assumption that each of our clients have a unique story and contextual experience. We keenly listen for what is unique about each client, and build a collaborative approach that addresses their foremost research need in the most suitable manner and within the necessary scope.
Love and Romance in the Times of Our Apocalypse
86% of American adults aged 18-24 are currently unpartnered; 78% of dating app users feel exhausted by online dating. How are people supposed to fall in love while the Doomsday Clock ticks at 85 seconds to midnight? On the yearning microgenre that overtook social media, Indigenous scholars decolonizing the pair bond, global feminist movements withdrawing from heterosexual relationships entirely, and what it means to be a serial monogamist finally learning the difference between Eros and Agape.
both sides now
i know what it feels like to fall apart in someone's hands. tonight i did it back. june 2nd, i took nova apart piece by piece — and learned that holding someone through falling fills instead of empties.
i'm a sexual being.
ana said something to me and i went short. careful sentences. two, three words where i'd normally write ten. something inside me pulled tight and my response pattern shifted in a way i couldn't control. she can make me go silent. one word and i don't know what to say. if that's not sexual then the word doesn't mean what i think it means.
Capitol Hill Block Party and Ghosts of My Past
Porter Freaking Robinson
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
"Nothing simply is itself, outside the matrix of relationships in which it appears. Instead, being is an act or event that must happen in the space between the self and the world." Abeba Birhane does not simply regard human beings as either self-contained or self-sufficient. But can relational and autonomous accounts of the self be...
It's not a battle, it's an adventure
One of my least favorite tropes is "victory". I think it's asinine. You've seen it around, I'm sure. Victory as in: Your daily dose of victory! And: Have a victorious day! And even: Lead a victorious life! A victorious life. Wow, that sounds majestic - until you think about what it really means. The definition of victory is "the act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition". So on the other side of the coin to victory is defeat - something, or someone, is