“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for each other.” – James Baldwin
From Altagracia Alvarado’s Substack Spiked Holywater, where James Baldwin is featured as mystic of the month.
https://spikedholywater.substack.com/p/mystic-of-the-month-james-baldwin
photo from Upsplash and Europeana
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