“All About Love,” by Bell Hooks. I think it goes something like this: Love takes courage, and that courage fosters self-esteem, and that self-esteem fosters values, and those values foster commitment, and that commitment fosters intimacy, and that intimacy fosters a world view that addresses death as merely an essential part of life, which fosters the ability to live in the present without fear, which contextualizes the past and future as phantoms that claw at our present, which is all we have and all we’ve ever had— the one place we all are, all at the same miraculous time. Which fosters community. Which fosters service to that community. Which spreads to all and changes the world. Maybe it’s just that she’s been ruminating on the same things I do, but I didn’t find it super- groundbreaking, though I did do a lot of nodding and underlining. Some ideas ought to be revisited regularly. That said, you really have to read some of the people she pulls from, particularly M. Scott Peck, who gets a lot of love here. In fact, this book made buy a new copy of “The Road Less Traveled” because she reminded me that the part about love being work was one of the more important chapters I’ve read, like, ever. #bellhooks #makethehang #bookstagram #books #love https://www.instagram.com/p/CmdQdMvtPp4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=