I Need Your Love, Is that True?

PHILOSOPHY
In what ways do we create a false self in exchange for co-dependency, short-term validation, and/or maintaining outdated belief systems? Love is meant to flow not to be contained. That is the biggest tragedy and freedom we’ll experience.

It is a reflection of where we’ve been. Knowing where we’ve been gives us access to where we want to go. In knowing, we get to choose the way we expand and view love in the world. The capacity to expand our love begins with accepting our longing to belong. Through this acceptance we unveil that love is beyond one person, a singular place, or a specific memory and that it goes beyond our physical realm. Love is in observation, in loss, in water, a bird, and all the subtle moments that keep you company in between human interactions. Through observation, we connect to our intention to pay attention.

Love is knowing that you could lose everything and everyone and yet love would be in the intricate peripherals that weren’t previously there for us. Love is trusting that life will unfold the multitude of versions of what it could be.

PUBLIC LETTERS ON LOVE is DESGLOSE’s first magazine dedicated to redefining the relationship between love and observation, featuring love letters from contributors across the country and world. Design & Layout Edited by Rene Cardona with photos by Bobby Escobedo and Rafa Amezcua, as well as illustrations by Kayla Terry. Creative Direction x Production by Leslie Barrientos.