When You Know You Know

She was so busy enjoying seeing herself on the big screen that she almost missed the proposal!😁
This is beautiful!🥰 pic.twitter.com/2XWAYN8J9F

— ♒😺☮🌊Ms. Caramel Rhapsody & Jesse 👑🧓🏾We ❤️YOU! (@CaramelRhapsody) April 22, 2024

A Quote

Between what is said, and not meant -

and what is meant, but not said -

most of love is lost.

--Kahlil Gibran

Today's Reddit

Awww

Today's Explainer

A bit frenetic, but there're some points here that really landed for me.

1. It can be said that angry frustrated people are the ones who are truly hopeful and optimistic
2. We're all strange, and hardly anyone will tell us the truth about us
3. Most of us are addicted to something - addiction being a pattern of behavior that keeps us from having to spend time with ourselves (see #2 above)
4. We avoid commitment because it's hard for us to feel vulnerable enough to admit we need someone
5. Loving and being loved are learned skills
6. The main reason we make mistakes in choosing a partner is that we're not so much looking for a mate as we are looking for something that feels familiar, which can be beautiful or disastrous depending on how we experienced love as very young children

To love is to be willing to interpret someone else's behavior - which on the surface may be unattractive, or even repellent - in order to discover more benevolent reasons for why it may be unfolding. To apply charity and generosity of interpretation.

Today's Today

I was a 14-year-old whitebread suburban knucklehead in 1967, blissfully ignorant of the kinda shit POC - and anyone who dared to love them - were having to put up with.

POC still have to put up with shit no one should have to put up with in 2021 - even here in USAmerica Inc.

We can say we've made some progress, and that'll have to do for right now today, but holy fuck, do we have a lotta work to do tomorrow, and everyday after that before we can stand proud and say we're being true to our stated principles.

Anyway -

Happy Loving Day everybody.

Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states. In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were U.S. state laws banning interracial marriage, mainly forbidding marriage between two different races, until the Warren Court ruled unanimously in 1967 that these state laws were unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the court majority opinion that "the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State."

Loving Day is not an officially recognized holiday by the U.S. government, despite attempts to make it so. Loving Day is the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States.

How It Should Be

How it was once, and how it can be again.

Carson McKee - Covering Jesse Collin Young - Sunlight

Hurts So Good