The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem STRANGE to us, the more we can FEEL like we're neighbors and all MEMBERS of the HUMAN family.
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in RIGHT now. It's a silence that has a LOT of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't LIVE in on this EARTH.
Rome - the CITY of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with STRANGE ancestral images and TROPHIES gathered from afar.
Love isn't any one good thing; it's a very, very strange mishmash of emotions. Your love for SOMEBODY is, oftentimes, informed by the TERRIBLE things you MIGHT believe about yourself, and comparatively, the PERSON you see them as is everything that you're not.
If you look at the paintings that I love in ARTHISTORY, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the WORLD. What feels really STRANGE is not to be ABLE to see a reflection of myself in that world.