hooks no agenda law
1\ you don’t have to have an agenda when you wake up in the morning because waking up in the morning is what you’re doing. bell hooks 1
2\ knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving.. when we can be alone, we can be with others w/o using them as a means of escape’ bell hooks 2
1 – on need for bachelard oikos law and how that is even hard to break (our curriculum-ized embed)
2 – on need for brown belonging law and how none of us are free if one of us is not us (chained)
hooks no agenda law 1: you don’t have to have an agenda when you wake up in the morning because waking up in the morning is what you’re doing – bell hooks
hooks no agenda law 2: knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving.. when we can be alone, we can be with others w/o using them as a means of escape – bell hooks
via jon husband fb share [https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=896957505128499&set=a.723917635765821]:
I agree with this.
I know solitude, and I believe it has helped me become an easier person.
kinda huge for me just now.. was perplexed about.. own apt vs basement apt ish
so .. how important safe/free solitary ness is.. and so .. sans any form of m\a\p ness.. so we can let go of our cling\ness to agenda ness..
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via mellie fb share next day:
“Many moons ago, I was listening to a podcast with the remarkable Ashley C. Ford, who shared this golden nugget from the poet Warsan Shire:
‘I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.’
“It’s something I now carefully consider in any relationship—romantic, platonic, business. We all need time alone and I seem to need more than most people, but in general, if I’d rather be alone than with you, it’s gonna be a no.”
—Nicole Christie, podcaster and founder of Tulla Productions
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from hooks & barlow:
hooks: The capacity to love is so tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
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be you. 