To Understand Love Is to Understand Life

Or: To Love Is to Be Fully Alive

Dear Friends and Family,

One of the gifts of getting older, it seems to me, is a return to childlike enchantment, and if we’re lucky, wonder. By some magic, we are restored to the sweetness of surprise. A renewed playfulness takes its place in our days. And if we’re even luckier, we return to the innocence of Love, a theme and feeling that has perfused these weeks and has stirred between us here some rather profound questions and reflections. I have been awestruck by your generosity and the intimacy with which you share.

Before I share field notes and reflections for this week, I want to pause to express my gratitude to you for sharing in this journey with me and now together with one another in intimate communion. As a group, we now stretch coast to coast, north and south. I also appreciate that you have shared these notes with soul kin. If you are new to “Morning Notes” and we have not yet had the occasion to say hello, please do so – here in comments to me and the group or by email t…