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A review by mrsthrift
Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher
4.0
It is winter in Olympia! Even our "January Project" of new vegan recipes on the daily can't entirely distract me from the foggy, gloomy Janu-Februaries that haunt me. I keep coming back to these LTLYM exercises, stories, images and moments that push my brain a little bit, just enough to stretch my heart. I am trying to consciously be more engaged in the process of "loving more." I feel disappointed in my own apathetic, half-assed attempts at relating to people during recent years. It's hard work / it's heart work, and I'm glad to have people like Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher, and their merry band of LTLYM-er's to help me along this path.
I have long mulled over Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher's website, www.learningtoloveyoumore.com, and appreciated the simple assignments done by many people. Selections from the website submissions have been compiled into this book. I like learning new ways for people to come together and feel new feelings. I like series of repeated items. I like Learning To Love You More. I'm not sure why it took me so long to read this book - possibly the same reason it has taken me so long to do any of the LTLYM assignments. I delighted in the pages of this book, though, finding photos and stories from people I know, and poring over the words and images from people I will never know. I read parts of it with my wife, parts of it with our son, parts of it in the early morning with a cup of coffee, and part of it alone with a book lamp under the covers after lights-out.
You don't have to do the assignments in any particular order, nor do you have to do them all, and the organization of the book reflects that - there is not a sequential order to the pieces, and the trajectory is unclear, but the assignments are listed in the back in order. So you can see everyone else's work, get fired up about your own ideas, and then get to the end and find your own "to do" list.
I have long mulled over Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher's website, www.learningtoloveyoumore.com, and appreciated the simple assignments done by many people. Selections from the website submissions have been compiled into this book. I like learning new ways for people to come together and feel new feelings. I like series of repeated items. I like Learning To Love You More. I'm not sure why it took me so long to read this book - possibly the same reason it has taken me so long to do any of the LTLYM assignments. I delighted in the pages of this book, though, finding photos and stories from people I know, and poring over the words and images from people I will never know. I read parts of it with my wife, parts of it with our son, parts of it in the early morning with a cup of coffee, and part of it alone with a book lamp under the covers after lights-out.
You don't have to do the assignments in any particular order, nor do you have to do them all, and the organization of the book reflects that - there is not a sequential order to the pieces, and the trajectory is unclear, but the assignments are listed in the back in order. So you can see everyone else's work, get fired up about your own ideas, and then get to the end and find your own "to do" list.