Love is an indescribable and inexpressible feeling. It can affect a person to the point of recklessness. Once a soul has realized its counterpart in another, the effects can cause one to surrender themselves completely. Judgment becomes clouded and rationality no longer exists. In the end, all that remains is pure, indefinable emotion. This emotion is what fuels the person. Love is why almost everybody […]

In her novel, Love, Toni Morrison reflects on the strength of love and feelings as these feelings help to determine society’s expectations of a person and the social decisions that person makes.  There are different kinds of love in a community.  There is a driving need for love in a person.  Morrison uses the story of the life of a man, Bill Cosey, and his […]

In this story, Brillantes confronts the most important questions of our lives as Christians: Does God exist? If so, what is the nature of God? I remember Tim telling me that Brillantes succeeds in telling a compelling story because he never preaches or subverts. That he allows the reader to experience, rather than solve, the problem of God’s presence or absence. The story is deceptively […]

In Shakespeare’s sonnet 18, Edmund Spenser’s sonnet 75 and Elizabeth Barret Browning’s sonnet 43 a key idea encompassed through all of them is the theme of love, which is portrayed using an array of language features most commonly figurative language. Shakespeare uses Figurative language to help himself portray the theme of love in sonnet 18 . “Shall I compare thee to a summers day? ” […]

A feeling of overwhelming gratitude to Swami and a sense of oneness with Him washed over me and warmed me to the core. Somehow those words brought home to me Just how much LOVE Swami has brought into my life, transforming my outlook and my interaction with others to such an extent that In some tiny way, people are starting to see Him In me. […]

Summary of “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” In the essay “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love”, Stephanie Coontz surveys the history of marriage throughout the world, revealing its historical purposes and the philosophies surrounding it. Coontz gives examples of how once people married for utility, necessity, and social advantages. She explains how over time and through the changing ideas about love and […]

Another drop of sweat dropped down my forehead and off the end of my nose as my eyes moved vigorously behind my dark shades. “Oh what a lovely pair!” I thought to myself, however I seemed to have thought out loud rather than to myself. My curious wife, who was lying on her sun bed next to me queried: “A lovely pair of what?” “A […]

“Traditional” families—father, mother, and children under 18—comprise only 27 percent of U.S. households. Who are the other 73 percent? They include other couples with an empty nest, grandparents caring for grandchildren, single parents and their children, the widowed, singles, cohabiting men and women, and childless or voluntarily child-free married people. To judge from the North American divorce rate—roughly 40 percent of Canadian marriages and half […]

Many people pair love along side of sex, thinking the two go hand in hand, when in reality, they don’t. Sex is an action out of lust, the fact that people can have casual hook ups, with no attachments illustrates this. Love is a deep emotion between two people, this leads to commitment, usually marriage, and sex, but a different kind, one that is purely […]

The playback: late night, Brooklyn, a pot of coffee, and a chair by the window. I’m listening too mix tape from 1993. ” This is Sheffield first line in his story of how his life is the connection to not only the world but the love of his life. The love of music is a connection most everyone finds themselves having. Rob Sheffield book Love […]