WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF LOVE?

From: et Cetera | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

ONE DAY in the mid-sixties, I saw a lapel button that, at the time, seemed to state an eternal truth. It announced, in gorgeous Old English script that "Love is." The idea affected me profoundly - but then, at age fifteen, many unexpected things affect one profoundly. I wrote poetry about the phrase, I rushed out and bought a matching button for my own lapel, I shared it with my friends. My whole life did NOT change completely, but I felt as if it had. Recently, this simple incident recalled from my youth has illuminated for me, in a very personal way, the reason I try to avoid the verb "to ...

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