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Ryan Barrington Cox

Ryan makes things in Asheville, NC.

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Love is a rose but you better not pick it.
It only grows when it’s on the vine.
A handful of thorns and you’ll know you’ve missed it.
You lose your love when you say the word ‘mine.’\

  • Neil Young

This concludes ten intentional posts on Love. I’d like to be an older person with a bigger heart.

Here are some thoughts on love.

  • Love is empathy. It’s walking a mile in another person’s heart.
  • Love is vulnerability. It’s keeping the walls down, letting myself feel more pleasure and pain.
  • Love is an opposite of anger. Anger is getting tight, defensive and reacting with rage. Love is softening, opening up and accepting.
  • Love hurts sometimes. Physically. It takes courage to care so deeply. It’s no wonder so many people get ground down and hardened by life, letting less love in over time.
  • Love is surrender.
  • Love gets us high. We want more. We want too much. We try to capture love and it vanishes.
  • Love is fleeting and everlasting.

Love is the lush countryside outside the train window.

Storms rage.

Birds sing.

We are along for the ride.

If we want to be.



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