I’m celebrating the completion of my 100th blog–and, since they all made it without a hitch from all the way up way up here in the heavens down to you, I have a treat for you.
As you know, I’ve been sent to earth to encourage Love. Love among lovers, among friends, among family members. This can mean that we talk about relationships, or institutions for relationships (like marriage) or looser “institutions” that guide relationships (like dating). There’s endless material, endless emotion-and endless fun.
And what interrupts the fun, the pleasure, of love? Sometimes it’s just inhibition-you know, not saying what you feel. Sometimes it’s saying too much about what you feel. Sometimes it’s not knowing what you feel, and -just as bad–not knowing what someone you like and who could be a perfect mate is feeling. In the heavens, we have instruments for expressing what words can’t express. Jove has his thunderbolt, which crashes across the skies in a racket that lets everyone and her mother know what the old man is feeling. Other gods have other ways of showing their feelings (Think Bacchus and his mountains of food and oceans of wine; think Cupid and his miraculous love darts). Gods can turn goddesses into trees if they’re displeased. Goddesses can turn women they’re jealous of into old hags. For us, in other words, when it comes to showing love to one another,
But you darling, sweet, adorable mortals have little else but words to convey your feelings. (Actions, too, but at some point, you have to talk.) To that end, I have a game for you to play, a game called “Thinking of Love?” (I hope that you are, by the way!), which you can see here, to the right. Since I can’t teach you the Divine art of magical thinking–you have to live up here for that–this is the closest thing. It’s my way of encouraging all of you not only to convey what you feel to your friends, but to find out what they’re thinking, too.
After all, what is lovemaking, really? It’s conversation-intimate, pleasurable, deep, conversation.
So converse, lovers! Converse, friends! Play “Thinking of Love?” and start that conversation!
