Love and Love Alone

I'm intrigued with social media and I relish the 700 plus friends I have on Facebook. No, I don't know them all personally. And I take delight in the cacophony of ideas and images that daily spill across my laptop screen.


Sometimes I learn something, sometimes I'm inspired, and sometimes I find affirmation for my own deep rooted beliefs.


Just today, a friend of mine posted the following quote from Tom Robbins novel, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates. I regret to say that I never read the book, but after reading this little snippet, you can best believe that it is now on my Amazon wish list. I have never before read a paragraph that completely sums up my feelings about life.

“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.”
― Tom Robbins

Wow!