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Overturning DOMA is to overturn radicalism not conservatism, and restore the traditional balance between the federal government and the states on civil marriage. The feds have no role in this apart from recognizing whatever a state wants to do. Period. DOMA was a mixture of panic, misinformation, political opportunism … and yet another betrayal of conservatism by the fundamentalist wing of the GOP. Repealing it is the conservative thing to do.
Pointedly eloquent as ever, Andrew Sullivan delivers one of the most intelligent takes on DOMA yet.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.
Viktor Frankl on love, from his timeless classic Man’s Search for Meaning.
Stendhal on how love works, 1822.
This handwritten note from a father to his gay teenage son is just about the most heart-warming addition to history’s greatest fatherly letters.
Wondrous Wondrous the merge
Wondrous the merge of soulmates
the surprises of recognition
Wondrous the flowerings of renewal
Wondrous the wings of the air
clapping their happy approval
Wondrous the merge of soulmates
the surprises of recognition
Wondrous the flowerings of renewal
Wondrous the wings of the air
clapping their happy approval
Wondrous the Merge: Why Love Knows No Boundaries – the story of James Broughton and his unlikely soulmate.
Radiolab points to this priceless photo of Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife inside a tetrahedreal kite – a move most certainly not listed in the era’s guide to kissing. If this isn’t love, what is?
From a charming, tiny compendium of love quotes by celebrated book designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. Pair with history’s famous aphorism on love.
I will do whatever you tell me to do. … Love me, please; I love you.
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s stirring love letters to British actress Edith Wynn Matthison
This marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper is possibly the best geek love story since the Golden Record and how Carl Sagan fell in love.
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
Dorothy Gambrell maps the most frequent Craigslist missed connections in each state. Second only to Sophie Blackall’s illustrated missed connections.
For Anaïs Nin’s 110th birthday today, one of her most poignant insights on love, illustrated by Debbie Millman.
Available as a print, with 100% of proceeds benefiting a foundation supporting women writers and artists.
