It was said that love occurred outside the systems that organized the rest of life. Work belonged to institutions. Cities belonged to planners. Economies belonged to markets and regulators. These structures governed schedules, transportation, housing, income—everything that made daily life possible. Love, by contrast, seemed to arise in places those structures could not reach. Two… Continue reading Romance in the Hive
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Cheaters
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter I UNDER THE SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE, they leaned into each other for warmth as the rain fell steadily around them. It was… Continue reading Cheaters

