Love inspires; love conquers; love takes us higher; love is our power; love is a natural instinct – what I am? Whatever love is, I am one of those people who refuses to believe that it is out of our control and that it is a matter of fate. There is plenty of it to go around and we can use it with purpose and in ways that we haven’t imagined. We can understanding it, learn from it, and teach it.
Let’s talk about love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream kind of way – a bit of musing with plenty of discussion. What’s your experience with love? How do you see it?
Feel love, give more to others (six words that could be a tweet or text story of love). Fitting into the text and tweet age, Smith Magazine encourages you to create a Valentine in six words. Before this Friday’s Coffee & Conversation take a moment to write your six-word love note. If you can, post it.
Let’s also make a mixtape. Come with your love song playlist.
See you tomorrow from 3-5 in the Howard Thurman Center to share coffee, stories, songs, and to talk about love.
Peace.
(Photo by Kalman Zabarsky)
3 Comments
I follow you on twitter posted on February 12, 2009 at 1:53 pm
She burnt up my fuse, unfortunately
John Battaglino posted on February 13, 2009 at 12:04 am
I think we all have love inside of us, but too often we are afraid to share it with others. Maybe it’s the fear of rejection, the fear of getting hurt, or the fear of what others may think…whatever our fears, we suppress the joy that comes with loving and being loved. How sad. It’s kind of like why no one likes to dance in public, we’re afraid of what others might think. So I say, “Dance freely, love openly, and do both without fear and without expectations”.
As for my six word love note, here you go:
Unconditional Love…Is it in you?
John
P.S. Yes, I borrowed part of my note from Gatorade, but you know my feelings about copyright.
Logan posted on February 13, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I have to be say I actually really like John’s six word love note and as for my own I haven’t quite found one yet but I did find one on NPR from the article that I particularly liked.
Leap of faith. Crap, no parachute.
– Katherine Yunker
(I changed one word so as not to swear in my first post)
Personally I think love is often a leap of faith that you fall into. Some of us fall harder than others but there is no parachute to soften the landing. That’s part of the great thing about love, it is a combination of so many things but it is always something you can learn and grow from. And I think it’s better without the parachute 🙂
Logan