"I love shifting on these strings," he enthused as he ran his finger up the yellow-brown strings, which he imports from a string maker in Italy.
Federalist conservatives love shifting power from the federal government to states because they believe that the closer government is to its citizens, the more responsive it is to those citizens.
At the other end of the commercial spectrum, the pretentious "Some Call It Loving" shifts gears when its listless, jazz-playing hero finds Pryor's character strung out in a bathroom, waxing poetic as if his graffiti above a urinal were a masterpiece.
When norms related to dating and free love shifted, in the sixties, they never fully shifted back.
Then after that my drive and focus and love shifted to magic; the love was in coming up with new tricks and perfecting them.
I wanted in this story to track what happens when that love shifts into or is mixed with eros, sexual desire, a love that does want something for the self, and in which there is often something predatory.
The sincere, comedic and provocative new novel, Bad Therapist, (Dog Ear Publishing, 2013, US $14.95) by Manhattan psychotherapist Will Meyerhofer, utilizes a Swiftian science fiction conceit as a pretext for a thoughtful meditation on love, shifting cultural mores concerning gender and sexuality and psychotherapy itself.
And as much as I love self-shifting a BMW, it must be said that the diesels are especially compatible with their 6-speed automatic transmission.
I am willing to stay longer in love because I believe in the power of staying and the transformation that can happen and deepen if people are only willing to love harder, shift and communicate.
But the rules of love have shifted, and our floriography needs modernizing as well.
