DISQUS

great article. Good prep. I go in this week!

This week I have had my guts kicked out for loving someone. Love is not safe, ever. Because you walk around with no protection. Love does not make room for pride either. There is nothing guaranteed about love and most certainly there is nothing fair about love. You will be betrayed, on some level. You will be stabbed. You will be abandoned. Humans f**k up everything. We do. I've done it - and we rarely even do it wittingly - hurt someone who loves us. And this time I got hurt. But you know, even after I lay on the floor, pushing my own spleen back into my abdomen...wiping up my own blood...love gave me the strength to reach out and say, "I forgive you. I love you. Now that we understand each other better, let's try again." And that amazing warm burn came over me. That Eternal Bottomless strength. Aha. Love is so big and so mighty and so God - I don't need the smaller ideas of fairness, pride and safety I cling to. With Love I truly am inviincible.

thank you lovely Danielle and I have been so enjoying your website whitehottruth.com!

I have a black slinky dress that hugs in all the right places and plunges at the neckline in folds - so it is dangerously revealing at certain angles and rather covered at others. That peek-a-boo is titillating. I know when I peek and I know when I boo. And to who.

my pleasure, Pearl, thank you for missing me! xo L

great article! Love the Jung quote and the idea of thinking about "what if you don't meet your soul mate" and examining the fall out of that. So glad you met the man who met your list...there is hope for us all out there. Thank you Monika! xo L

thank you, Tim, you're right, now that I pay attention to the natural more, the artificial is repugnant. The more I pay attention to the "animal" I am and others are, the more grounded I become, the more in-tune, the more passionate and alive. Thank you for writing - cheers, L

how lovely, soft blanket and fresh cut wood...I'm all gushy now...

Thank you - and GREAT word!

Carolynn, what an amazing story! You gave me shivers reading this revelation of yours, this strong, empowering and wise choice. You have inspired me today. thank you.

L'Tanya, love the idea. I went completely nude instead of a lingerie shot which felt even more...like art. More full on "here I am" - but it's all good. Its all good!

If he isn't pursuing you, he is not worth pursuing. End of story.

fun that borders on frostbite, at least three generations gathered for a reading of St Luke around the fire place, a turkey so big it barely gets into the oven, carols - the only time of the year I hear my grandpa singing.

I love the way you word this, Den, "it is us". Thank you!

what a delightfully fun article! Looking forward to listening to some of these. I love the duet between Bono and Sinatra...but what Christmas carol was it now...hmm...I also love Bono's One with Mary Blige and Bono's "when love came to town" with BB King. Okay...maybe I got a theme here...maybe I'd like my own duet with Bono!

Mac's red brick lip liner and pressed powder. Give me that and I'm ready to seduce anyone, anytime.

I think you should ask Santa for a history book in your stocking...Jesus, that radical socialist feminist sensualist Mind rocked this world two thousand and some years ago.

That's great, Alida. I hope to do that for my daughter. The Santa being pretend and the Jesus being real.

Playwright Jose Rivera said something along the lines of: every time you write you should be putting your career at risk...meaning, write what pushes your own envelope. I am trying to acheive authenticity through asking myself the hardest questions: and wrapping a play, an article, a film, around those questions. I grow and learn through my art and in this very naked process, others just might find catharsis and entertainment if Im honest enough.

Aha, good suggestion, Susan!

have to laugh, yes? Or someone gets their false teeth put through the garborator..."ooops! so sorry! now you'll have to gum your insults!"

xo Lottie - thank you! I'll try to keep it up!

and yeah, you should be painting like hell. You're amazing. And that's no "I'm your friend" hyperbole.

Aha! Rene, my friend! You're right.

In a society where too often we hear "if you're not happy, leave", this article gave me courage. I love "evanescent leaves". Yes, I am more permanent than that. Thank you Pearl.