The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. A “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist.” Saudade (Portuguese) describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often…

“Why is the measure of love loss?” – Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body I do not know, Ms Winterson, but this seems to be the case regardless of how one loss love. I think as a people, we tend to take certain things for…

I think any man or woman should be able to love any man or woman they want regardless of who they are and what people think of them. We, as a people, have absolutely no right to dictate who someone may or may not love.…

Degas once said, “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” I can’t help but agree with this statement. I always wonder why that is. This statement could be easily applied to any form of art. I tend to…

“Love draws our original nature back together; he tries to reintegrate us and heal the split in our nature.” Plato once wrote that man, in his original state, was a creature with two heads, four arms, four legs, and was very powerful. Fearing man’s power, Zeus,…