tis the season...

"The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you
claim to be interested in it, from the moment you are alive you are
bound to be concerned with love, because love is not just something that
happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is, in
fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a
wholeness of life." --Thomas Merton