Love, Cholera, Bitter Almonds, Unrequited Love, and You

April 7, 2018 by Joshua
in Art, Audio, Awareness, Perception, Podcast

“It was inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Dr. Juvenal Urbino of the fate of unrequited love.”

Have you paid attention to the opening lines of Love in the Time of Cholera, the novel by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

I hadn’t for decades and missed richness, complexity, and depth, paralleling a richness, complexity, and depth I missed in nature, my relationships with others, and my relationship with myself.

This episode unravels the lines and shares their meaning, to me at least.

The cover of Love in the Time of Cholera I read

The cover of Love in the Time of Cholera I read

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