2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge: Review of “Remember Love”

“Remember Love: Words for Tender Times” by Cleo Wade is a collection of poems interspersed with short prose essays.

Wade writes on diverse topics, everything from self love to relationships, stillness to jealousy, surrender to balance (see my last post for more on what Wade has to say on balance.)

Reading Wade’s poems and essays is like having an older sister or aunt gently give suggestions on parts of your life you may be struggling with.

For example, on falling off track:

“If you are in a dark and negative place, you will always find people living in that energy.

These are not your helping hands.

If we are hanging on the edge, someone who is also hanging on the edge cannot help us up; we need someone who is on top of the ledge to pull us up.”

Or, on forgiveness:

“We often try to substitute forgiving with forgetting.”

Or, on letting go:

“So much of what we hold on to is our own energy. We hold anger because we feel we wasted our time. We hold disappointment because we feel our expectations weren’t met. We hold guilt because we had to leave certain relationships in order to be happy.”

One of my favourite lines in Wade’s poems is the last line of “I returned the cape”: when you are superhuman, you don’t get to be human.

I recommend this book for those who are looking for comforting, uplifting, and thought provoking reading. Categorizing this under health (mental health).

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