It's What Isn't Said that Says the Most
I Dreamt of My Transformation
The Hidden Chapter
One of the last chapters in the Five Love Languages is titled “Loving the Unlovely.” The question is posed: “Is it possible to love someone you hate?” In an attempt to answer this “profound” question, Dr. Chapman conducts a six-month experiment with the patient that posed the question. This chapter especially spoke to me because…
It is 6:34 PM Friday night. End of a long week. Teaching. Writing. Two not-so-young lovers greet each other at the car door as soon as his little black sports car coasts down the steep drive. She has anxiously been waiting for him to get home all day. She is wearing a pair of denim…
I knelt, as if in prayer, head in hands, clinging onto a faint glimmer, a shimmer, in the retreating light ahead. I had been left along the wayside some time ago. It was unclear for how long. Time had stopped, it seemed. I was frozen and had lost my way. The directions somehow misread. Engulfed…
How long? She asks. How long will she wait? For the words The look The sigh… How long? She asks. How long will it take? For return of the beat The wisp The butterflies… How long? She asks. How much longer will it be? Before the light A signal A sign… How long? She asks.…