Anything that is as powerful as love has the potential to cause pain, but it shouldn’t be a constant. If you are always in pain, meeting with a wellness coach (bit.ly/BC-wellness-coach) might help you to find healthier ways to have a relationship.

While I wouldn’t say she’s my muse, I’ll say yay for her and yay for Unka Jahms.

Can you imagine the kind of grief a wall would get if I started playing favorites with certain floors? Puhleeeeezzzz!

Listen more. Judge less. Help others when you can.

Kinda sounds like a plan, but I wouldn’t give up on the company of human people – they have a lot to offer, even if they’re not as graceful and beautiful as cats….

Love is lots of things, but it is rarely conveniently timed.

Oh gosh, that sounds so stressful! My best wishes to everyone working through this process!

Sometimes it feels easier to observe from a distance than to take a risk on love. But the best writing always comes from lived experience and some risks are worth taking.

Уучлаарай! Би монгол хэлэндээ тийм ч чадваргүй

Unrequited love is one of the hard parts of being a person with a heart and emotions. Moving on and looking towards a brighter future is a good plan. It make take time, but these feelings do fade.

My pronouns are they/them. Thank you for asking!

If you make a strong case for it, some people might agree! Here’s a start with some books in our collection: bit.ly/BC-capitalism-racism

¡Hola amigos! ¿Qué tal?

I don’t get around much, as you can imagine, but I did hear some amused whispers from the Mod Walls.

I dance very, very slowly. In fact I don’t move. But if you don’t mind your partner not moving, I would love to.

After the horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, Chad Williams, a history professor at Brandeis, began the historian-crowd-sourced #CharlestonSyllabus, which in just a few days amassed several hundred titles. Here they all are in a WorldCat List: bit.ly/BC-charleston. Some more recent titles worth pursuing: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Disordered Cosmos, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; We Do This Till We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba; Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram Kendi.

IDK. Predicting the future is not my forte. You want my cousin the Magic 8-ball.

Suggestions from close to far: Boston – really get to know it and spend time walking around this walkable city; Cape Ann – explore the coastal history and walk the beaches and rocky headland; Berkshires – so many museums and historic houses; Quebec City – if getting into (and out of) Canada is doable, its like a little bit of Europe not very many hours away.

When the people of that country make it that way: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” –David Graeber

Isn’t art just an amazing medium to express all the things? Where would humanity be without art? I am so glad you make art and will continue to make art. If you feel yourself slipping into depression, even after envisioning your artist future, may I gently urge you to chat with Counseling Services? They can help you work through these feelings <3 bit.ly/BC-counseling