Known simply as A, the narrator feels similar impulses to Seth as he/she strives for connection, order and understanding by pursuing a relationship with a girl whose boyfriend's body he/she once borrowed.
He strives for connection, and Sumell's stories are alive with that feeling.
When parents strive for connection, self-awareness and a deeper understanding of their child, they'll be on the way to attaining the title of parenting 'speedcuber' (yes that is actually a term people train for and label themselves as, in the Rubix cube circuit), and the benefits to both parent and child, as a result, will be immeasurable.
"Many are striving for a connection now, and they don't know what to do," said Jim Sullivan, who has turned his experiences as a self-described gay dating coach into an upbeat little book, "Boyfriend 101," just published by Villard.
In these cases, the person's psychological aim is positive and healthy: striving for positive connection, although it may remain unconscious and expressed in the above ways.
Veg boxes, food swaps, pop-up gardens and pick your own flower farms; Britain is striving for a sustained connection to our kitchens, our gardens and the very soil beneath our feet.
Should we be striving for a deeper connection and reading of this relationship between art and entertainment that goes beyond standing in front of museum logos at parties?
For me, more than anything, it is the profoundly revolutionary (for his culture, and for our culture today) teachings and life example of Jesus of Nazareth that move me, that inspire me, that help to keep me on the path of striving for justice, peace, connection to nature and a world organized on the basis of love.
We strive for intimate connections.
Herzog's love is kept for whatever it is in human beings that strives for connection, for meaning – even when the form those strivings take seem weird, misplaced and mad.
