Why “Love Among the Ruins”?

It’s what we do or at least I think what we ought to be doing

Tom Waits once said in an interview that he wasn’t an actor; he is a musician who has done some acting. Tom Waits seems to know himself and what his life is about. I think that is the journey for each of us — discovering and becoming who we truly are, while along the way, creating genuine and varied experiences during this blip of a life we each get to live.

Why this, why now

Love Among the Ruins is a publication intending to more seriously reflect on and discuss together what it means to be a genuine human in a world that is continuously falling into ruin. I’ve already lived a number of lives, full, fake, healthy, and miserable, and as I enter the home stretch of what is hopefully at least a 20-year span (aren’t we each, unknowingly for the most part, in the “home stretch” of our lives?), I want to engage my heart and brain with others. The purpose (I almost said “goal”, out of habit, ugh!) is simply to explore pictures and scenes of what we do to become and be genuinely human.

A community comprised of the joyfully serious and seriously joyful

I would like to share authentic thoughts and themes about how we each may experience what it takes to live wildly present in a body, a location, and at this point in time.