Porch Light Love
I've been doing some writing on Substack as Therabarb, but this one seemed like a good one for a crosspost. https://open.substack.com/pub/therabarb/p/i-believe-love-will-save-us-all-also?r=1pavyn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true I Believe Love Will Save Us All. Also? I Hate Valentine’s Day. Love Isn’t Loud, It’s a Porch Light I want to be very clear up front: I am not anti-love. I am, in fact, aggressively pro-love. I believe love is transformative. I believe it is the only thing that makes any of this worth it. I believe love is in the details—the small kindnesses, the noticing, the way someone brings you coffee without asking. The way you can exhale in the presence of someone safe. I believe love is the closest thing we have to salvation. And I still detest Valentine’s Day. Maybe that’s confusing. It’s like being someone who loves music but cannot stand the sound of a kazoo (true.) Technically the same category, emotiona...
