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Tag Archives: sexual relationship
Apsley Street, Glasgow, 2008 – Kei Miller
I know you do not like the way I write moments, how they grow into some kind of magic you do not always recognise. I know you think things are simpler and it is enough to simply say how things … Continue reading
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Animal courtships, performed by humans
It’s a first in our history to post a condom advert, but we enjoyed this piece of whimsy, which has some depth and beauty – and we thought you might too… Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994
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Mary Oliver on Love & its necessary wildness – Brainpickings
Mary Oliver on Love and Its Necessary Wildness Lovely piece, beautiful poems, and a wonderful conversation between Mary and Krista Tippett for On Being – as Maria says ‘feast your soul’. Thank you, as ever, to Maria Popova and Brainpickings. Here’s the book … Continue reading
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The Sea in You – David Whyte
Beautiful. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994
Posted in awakening, beauty, David Whyte, embodiment, emotions, encounter, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, love, organismic experiencing, perception, photographs & pictures, physical being, poetry, presence, relationship, sexual being, surrender, touch, trust, vulnerability
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Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch – Mark Greene
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/megasahd-touch-isolation-how-homophobia-has-robbed-men-of-touch/ Intelligent and humane article from Mark Greene via http://www.goodmenproject.com. In the writer’s view, this is a cultural issue going beyond touch between men, and issues around sexual identity or homophobia – huge as these are. As Mark acknowledges, our … Continue reading
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i carry your heart – ee cummings
i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, … Continue reading
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond – ee cummings
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose … Continue reading
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