Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, … - Helen Humphreys

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While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.

Helen Humphreys

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Doe, Happen, Love Is, Point, Space, Thing

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This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.

Away, Choices, Goodbye, Lost, Lost Ones, Thing

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Company, Maybe, Reading, Real, Stopped, Way

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Glance, Grief, Like, Like Love, Moving, Suppose

The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified. I suppose you could call it creative non-fiction, and rather focused on the natural world, which is what I'm most interested in reading these days. At least that would be the closest thing, but my books also include some fiction, so they're difficult to pinpoint.

Book, Creative, Easily, Interested, Pinpoint, Reading

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

Ifs, Love, Lucky, Stories, Story