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Architecture of Longing
Throughout the making of this book, I found myself meditating on what it means to love without expectation. To love someone’s soul and embrace the ways our flesh fails. I kept coming back to this idea of effervescent love, or the word shimmer - the idea that you can glimpse someone’s soul like a shimmer
I come from the school of Octavia Butler who talks about God as Change in The Parables, and I think if God is change, love is release. It’s about noticing those moments of shimmer and then letting them go, that
Love is an open palm rather than a closed fist
Love is a bird in flight rather than in a cage
Love is a crane at rest, in the quiet, in the snow
Releasing a need for control, dominance, power, and embracing a
practice of surrender. Loving someone - romantic, familial, animal, platonic - without a need for a result. Loving because loving in any capacity is a gift. And because love can transform us in ways nothing else can.
Printed at Onward & Co, 2026. Publishing forcoming in 2027. To be added to the pre-sale list, or to request a PDF copy preview, please email rissacote@gmail.com.