A Book Of The Heart

The Shadow Self to Love is Inconvenience

Photo: The Laundress by Honoré DaumierA Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

May 3 • Arathi Devandran

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April 2026

When we too must battle our own hauntings and hill houses

Photo: House on the Hill by Pablo Picasso A Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Apr 16 • Arathi Devandran

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March 2026

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Mar 28 • Arathi Devandran

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Mar 21 • Arathi Devandran

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February 2026

I turn the key in the lock.

Photo: Still from “Wuthering Heights” A Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Feb 8 • Arathi Devandran

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January 2026

Every man deserves some flowers.

Photo: Garçon à la pipe by Pablo PicassoA Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Jan 25 • Arathi Devandran

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May we continue to always dance between the impersonal and the precious.

Photo: The Merry Cemetery by Amrita Sher-GilA Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Jan 4 • Arathi Devandran

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December 2025

The grief in my heart is a blooming flower.

Photo: Roses by Henri Fatin-Latour A Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Dec 6, 2025 • Arathi Devandran

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November 2025

If I didn’t know better, I would say this is all love.

Photo: The Kiss by Gustav KlimtA Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Nov 16, 2025 • Arathi Devandran

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October 2025

I hope I become a better memory for you.

Photo: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí

Oct 12, 2025 • Arathi Devandran

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August 2025

In another court, in another life, in circular time.

Photo: Guan YinA Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Aug 31, 2025 • Arathi Devandran

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June 2025

To be revolutionary doesn’t require pitchforks and burning torches.

Photo: Liberty Leading The People by Eugène DelacroixA Book Of The Heart is a reader-supported publication.

Jun 29, 2025 • Arathi Devandran

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