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by Sandra Williams*
Happy Valentine's Day!
Love is in the air these days. Many have offered thoughts about this powerful emotion.
Author James Baldwin, for example, declares, "Love has never been a popular movement....The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you.
"What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be."
Others contribute to the discussion:
"Love is the bridge between you and everything.” - Rumi
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” - Sophocles
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - anonymous
“We can only learn to love by loving.” - anonymous
Perhaps you, too, have a favorite line on love or would like to respond to those above. We'd love to have you share !
*Sandra Williams is a writer of poetry, fiction and essays. She believes writing is both therapeutic and enlightening: “When we become aware of what inspires us, our imagination is expanded, and we tap into our intuitive selves.” She and her husband, Robert, local landscape and mural painter, live in Gilbertsville, PA, and part-time in Rockport, MA. She is author of Moss on Stone: an historical novella and Time and Tide: a collection of tales (available on Amazon). Other writings at www.cosmicseanotes.blogspot.com
by Kathy Kirk*
Love Stories
Perfect love story?
Maybe for some, but most just
Do the best they can.
We take good & bad
And make a life together,
Thankful for the love.
* Kathy Kirk: woman, wife, mom, gram, sister, friend, teacher, traveller, out-of-doors lover, crafty...
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