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What does it mean to love a person?
What does it mean to love a place?
To love a person and a place - means at least this:
One. To want to be near it physically.
Two. To want to know everything about it
- its story, its moods, what it looks like by moonlight.
Three. To rejoice in the fact of it.
Four. To fear its loss and grieve for its injuries.
Five. To protect it - fiercely, mindlessly, futilely, and
maybe tragically, but to be helpless to do otherwise.
Six. To be transformed in its presence - lifted, lighter
on your feet, transparent, open to everything beautiful
and new.
Seven. To want to be joined in it, taken in by it, lost in it.
Eight. To want the best for it.
Nine. Desperately.
….. Loving isn't just a state of being, it's a way of acting in the
world.
Love isn't a sort of bliss, it's a kind of work, sometimes hard
spirit-testing work.
…..Responsibility grows from love. It is the natural shape of
caring.
Ten. To love a person or a place is to accept moral responsibility
for its well-being.
Excerpts from "The Pine Island Paradox" by Kathleen Dean Moore
What does it mean to love a place?
To love a person and a place - means at least this:
One. To want to be near it physically.
Two. To want to know everything about it
- its story, its moods, what it looks like by moonlight.
Three. To rejoice in the fact of it.
Four. To fear its loss and grieve for its injuries.
Five. To protect it - fiercely, mindlessly, futilely, and
maybe tragically, but to be helpless to do otherwise.
Six. To be transformed in its presence - lifted, lighter
on your feet, transparent, open to everything beautiful
and new.
Seven. To want to be joined in it, taken in by it, lost in it.
Eight. To want the best for it.
Nine. Desperately.
….. Loving isn't just a state of being, it's a way of acting in the
world.
Love isn't a sort of bliss, it's a kind of work, sometimes hard
spirit-testing work.
…..Responsibility grows from love. It is the natural shape of
caring.
Ten. To love a person or a place is to accept moral responsibility
for its well-being.
Excerpts from "The Pine Island Paradox" by Kathleen Dean Moore