“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love” (Tolstoy) Tis the season of LOVE. With Valentine’s Day closely approaching I thought I would share some of my favorite thoughts, quotes, ideas, etc on love. There’s something exciting about an entire day that focuses on people giving and…
Category: Love & Family
Love is Greater than Fear
I’d like to tell you a true story about love. When I was a teenager, I was terrified of marriage. How could I ever find one person who I wouldn’t get bored of, who I would care about so much that I would put his needs before my own, and who I could trust in…
Do You See The Flowers?
Do you see the Flowers? People often ask me why I do the strange things I do — like spending my Friday nights cruising downtown just to talk to all of the street dwellers, picking up hitch-hikers, handing out flowers to strangers, or purposely driving somewhere I have never been at a whim just to…
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
When I was in high school, our literature class read a book which made a great impact on me. It is called Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district by Nikolai Leskov. The book is about a rich, married woman – Katerina Izmaylova, who fell in love with one of her servants who had a bad reputation…
Love is a Choice
Love has been a universal theme of stories, songs, and melodies throughout time and throughout all cultures. In almost every language there seem to be special words used to describe love in its various forms. As I was studying Japanese, I was struck by the grammatical difference between the verbs “to love” and “to fall…