Jonathan A. Linebaugh: "A deep part of the puzzle of human living is that our desire to be understood and loved is often buried under a fear that if we were seen, the other wouldn’t and couldn’t, looking right at me, say “I love you.” Life is often a cruel combination of “sighing to be approved” (George Herbert) and yet living among others as what Taylor Caldwell calls “sealed vessels” (The Listener). Trapped in this habit of hiding — of shame and secret-keeping — any “I love you” feels like it comes with a footnote: The “you” that is loved is not actually you, but only what Thornton Wilder describe... bbowman.micro.blog

@bbowman A great quote from a great guy. I feel like that “known and still loved” combo is what the show Beef illustrates in its own crazy way.

@bbowman Don’t know that I can give it a caveat-less recommendation. The people that are fully known can be pretty rough. Moments of insanity, moments of grace, maybe in a Flannery O’Connor kind of way.