If you follow #stateofthelil, then you may recall my adventures in dating. One of my posts was called I Can't Win for Losing. I was contacted by endless romanti-scammers, the Holo guy, the "Cleanse Yourself" guy, the disgraced doctor, and twice by my ex-husband. I was even told by someone that I wasn't "materialistic enough."

To discourage everyone, I made my profile as impenetrable as the thick vines that grew around the castle where Sleeping Beauty zoned out for 100 years.

Only a true prince could manage to read my dating website profile.

Instead of talking about my career, trips, my favourite "books, movies, tv shows, music, and food," I wrote philosophical statements like this:

    Philosopher, Richard Rubenstein, said, "We stand in a cold, silent, unfeeling cosmos unaided by any purposeful power beyond our own resources."

    The cold silent cosmos - is that where we stand - unaided by any power beyond our own resources?

    I'm inclined to agree with him, but I also think that our own resources are extensive, untapped, and mysterious and include resources for togetherness, cooperation, mercy, justice, and revelation.

At the bottom of my profile, I put:

    Contact me

    -- if you are wise and thoughtful and yet believe, as I do, that we know very little and control even less; and

    -- you suspect that if the universe can create someone as unique as you, the universe can also create someone for you.

Then I tapped into the psychic paging system.

OftenBen:

    you suspect that if the universe can create someone as unique as you, the universe can also create someone for you.

I'm seriously a little teary reading that. It's a beautiful thing.


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