When Love is Love

Love, love changes everything / Hands and faces, earth and sky / Love, love changes everything / How you live and how you die . These words by Andrew Lloyd-Webber are no longer just lyrics to me because I now know that  love does change everything .  Add these words:  Now I tremble at your name / Nothing in the world will ever be the same.   My world has not been the same since the first time that I danced with her. She fit! We fit!  She was 17. She came into my world from the old country and I still tremble at her name and my world has never been the same.  Plato will have it that 'falling in love' is the mutual recognition on earth of souls who have been singled out for one another in a previous or celestial existence. To meet the Beloved is to realize 'We loved before we were born.'   While I recognized her, and we did love before we were born, it is clear that rather than being singled out, we chose one another in that previous ...

April 23, 2023 To Jane, Burt, Mike, Angie, Wayne, Cindy and Heidi Your mother, my older sister, has always been a hero of mine. I don’t remember much when I was very young, but I do remember your mother always had friends over to the house, played games with them and laughed a lot.  I remember one time Sharon, Roger and I went to the Tower theater to see Abbott & Costello Meets Frankenstein. Each of us had a very unique experience that day. I was hiding between the seats because I was afraid. Roger was upset. Why? Because your mother was laughing so hard. He had to get up and move away from her.  She was the best laugher, even at herself. Many Problems and Solutions were directed at her, and it was like she was glad that others could laugh and have fun, even at her expense. My dad was not like that at all. He did not like anyone laughing at him. Which means Sharon took after my mother.  I was 11 when your mother married your dad. She seemed old enough to me. ...

One of my best friends, Michael Howery, passed away in December 2021, and I have missed him. Even though I moved to Arizona several years ago, Mike and I would get together when I came to Utah. We were both old men then and would go to his favorite place for pancakes in Murray, Utah.  It would take at least two trips on my part as he would forget to pick me up at the Frontrunner Station in Murray, so I would have to take the train back and then drive to his house and pick him up. The last time I saw him he could barely walk, but refused my assistance to help him to the door.  Four months later he died. Mike and I met at the office of the Utah Attorney General in 1973. I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps and went to work for the Utah Attorney General where Mike was working. We both worked across the street on 4th South from the old Third District Courthouse, and represented the state in collecting child support from mostly men who had failed to pay, and whose spouses ende...

It is true that safe is safer and the danger's in the risk, but what is there without the risk except safer? There could not be love 'cause love requires risking everything and everything's not safer. But everything is everything and who would risk it all? Only those that love and know that love is risking all.