When we disagree with something, we tend to think Against. We don’t like this policy, or don’t respect this manager, don’t want to buy this product, don’t want to see this person. Against is a cloudy feeling, a storm in an endless night. But when true tragedy strikes, a hard-won silver lining is that sometimes […]
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son Baldwin was telling about seeing his dying father in this passage, how he no longer hated his father, yet […]