Summer 2016

1. Growing your nails out because they like to have their back scratched
2. Doing a thing you hate to do
3. Trying to run into me at a place you know I go to often
4. Wiping tears
5. Food
6. Song
7. Putting too much sunscreen on them before they go outside
8. A hand on my back when I’m very stressed out
9. Remembering a tiny, tiny thing
10. Being thoroughly impressed, but not at all surprised
11. Unfathomable
12. Peace within everything

What is it? bell hooks said it’s the only true caring, selfless thing, right? That it’s less common than we pretend it is. I asked [redacted] to stretch the definition she was studying. She said she’s never really loved anyone, not even her parents, and I said, “What if love is just a space?”