Horoscope

The ancient Greeks had words for love that transcend our usual notions, writes Lindsay Swope in her review of Richard Idemon's book Through the Looking Glass. Epithemia is the basic need to touch and be touched. Our closest approximation is "horniness," though epithemia is not so much a sexual feeling as a sensual one. Philia is friendship. It includes the need to admire and respect your friends as a reflection of yourself--like in high school, where you want to hang out with the cool kids because that means you're cool too. Eros isn't sexual in the way we usually think, but is more about the emotional gratification that comes from merging souls. Agape is a mature, utterly free expression of love that has no possessiveness. It means wanting the best for another person even if it doesn't advance one's self-interest. The phase you're currently in, Virgo, is providing you with opportunities to explore the frontiers of at least three of these kinds of love.

The Boy with the Chair returns next week....

It's hard out here for a pimp

Apparently "It's hard out here for a pimp" is worthy of an Oscar for best original song from a motion picture - but Emmylou Harris' "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from the (overlooked Best Picture) Brokeback Mountain did not even get a nomination.

The Boy With The Chair

I met a boy from Montreal Via Newfoundland who told me a story about his chair and his lamp. We shared a momment in time unlike any other momment that I have experienced.
"Extremely Poetic"

Songs of the week:
Mariah Carey "Say Something" David Morales Stereo Mix
Madonna "Forbidden Love"
James Blunt "You're Beautiful"