Love is All Around
"Love really is all around." -- From the opening scene of Love Actually Have you ever had one of those days when love really is all around? For me it was Saturday. All day, everywhere I looked, the Universe was sending me reminders to love, love, love. At my yoga class I parked my mat in the first row (which I never do) and there in the floor was a little heart formed from the whorls and swirls of the wood. As I came inside the house after class, I stopped at our Little Free Library and there, staring out at me, was a small hardback volume of a book entitled How to Love . And later, when I sat down to relax with a cup of tea, I picked up a coffee table book we have had for years ( Monet: Water Lilies ) and came across this quote, "Everyone discusses [my art] and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." (Claude Monet) This strikes me as a profound statement about life as well as art. It is...
