The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love

Two of the most dangerous myths we live with are the idea, handed down to us by the Romantics, that in true love two people meet each other’s every need and desire, and the idea, sold to us by the merchants of materialism and woven into the fundamental mythos of the modern world, that happiness is a matter of attaining the external objects of our desire that would finally give us the interior stillness of enough. But then we live. We live and we discover that our desires are mirages in the desert of our self-knowledge, discover that of all… read article