Abstract
When Robin asked me if I wanted to write something on onging, I said ‘I could do it, but it's not my specialty.’ He looked at me. Of course. Longing is my middle name.
I long for love, for community, for connectedness, for a partner, for someone to share my bed or my neighborhood or my mind, for anything that will heal the elemental feelings of loneliness and separation, anything that will bring me into myself, into my wholeness, into my being a part of something larger.
Out of that longing has come not only lifelong pain, but also my spiritual life, and indeed so much of my creativity. What was Skyros Holidays but an impulse to create the world of intimacy, authenticity, beauty and warmth that I so longed for? Yet paradoxically, when you create community for others, you are the only one who doesn't really get that. You are alone, behind the scenes, making sure everyone else is okay.