L is for the way...

I was trying to think,
What is Love?

How do you define it?

What is the Great Love?

Is it admiration?
Fascination?
Familiarity and agreeing on things?

Affection?
Confection?
Dejection?
Inflection? ("I lu -uh-ve you...!" ??)

Dancing?
Hugging and kissing?
Helping?
Making sure the Object of Love is OK?

Cheering someone on?
Being genuinely happy for someone's success?

Things I love:
a Bob Dylan concert
Bob Dylan's music
Rolling Stones music
Grateful Dead music,
my Cat,
dogs and cats generally

"The Sound Of Music"
"My Fair Lady"
"Oklahoma!"
"South Pacific"

oh, man this isn't working. Well maybe it is -- maybe Love is general, and Everywhere, like God.

Like that song at the beginning of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show":

Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile --
Well it's you, girl, and you should know it,
With each glance and every little movement
you show it --

Love is all around, no need to waste it,
You can have a town, why don't you take it?
You're gonna make it after all...
(hmm mm mmm--)
You're gonna make it after all... (Ta-da!)
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Is it possible to write something half-way intelligent and useful about Love?
(Not today, apparently.)
It's one of the Great Mysteries.

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