An email newsletter investigating love, one interview at a time, by natasha lunn

Conversations on love
 
I love this poem about the possibilities of coffee cake and ripe peaches, and the happiness of being known. It’s ‘So Much Happiness’ by Naomi Shihab Nye, and I found it inside Ella Risbridger’s beautiful anthology ‘Set M
Got into the habit of buying Baci chocolate kisses whenever I go into the Italian shop round the corner from where we live. They come with love notes written in different languages. Like fortune cookies, but better!
“Part of what I’m trying to unpick are these capitalist ideas of accumulation: the longer you’re in a relationship the more valuable it is; the more children you accrue the more valuable a family is. These are the ideas we’re
I’ve been reading back through some of my early Conversations on Love transcripts, and thinking about how often nature comes up as a form of love. The answers reminded me of this Mary Oliver poem. 🌱