i've spent a lot of time thinking about love. at this point in life...40..not 20...i've come to very few conclusions about love. but the few that i have come to...have become quite strong in conviction. i think love is a state ...or an experience...or a place we visit from time to time. precious times where things click. i think love is very real and very mystical and spiritual. love is spirit. it's invisible. you can't see it...but only it's consequences. mags mentioned paul's piece on love in corinthians and i have always enjoyed that text. so much of paul..or what's attributed to paul i've not liked. but i see paul as a mystic now. paul knew the unseen world which was very very real if not visible. it's an odd thing. i had just spoken to a group about this very thing and concluded alone that night that joni mitchell knows the experience and reality of love and is able to put it in form for us..both audibly and visually. makes the unseen visible. as does the piece in corinthians. as does the people in our lives. i also think colin is right about the conditional aspects of love. this is why i say we visit the place of love but never stay there for good. pat np. nothing
