Your first kiss 1.1

Before I get started on this subject, I ask you to visit this website, the most amazing one I have ever seen... We Feel Fine .

Now, imagine a line. Think about how this line might connect all of us, all over the world. Whatever we might be doing or feeling, one thing is for sure. We are alive at this same moment in time.

Tomorrow, we may not all be. A bus may hit one of us. Another, fallen by a stroke or heart attack. Here, one dies in war; there, one dies by racial hatred. Sexist violence kills that one; economic violence removes this one, though no one will cop to it.

A lack of health insurance kills this woman's baby. Being conceived on the wrong side of earth at the wrong moment in time dooms this baby. But if your parents happened to make love in this place, at this time, you may be born to the possibility of great wealth, good health, and an endless set of possibilities.

All of us who count ourselves as among the living, right now, have a story to tell. And that, of course, is what this blog is about. Have you stopped to think recently about that first kiss you experienced with someone new? Have you considered the meaning of that kiss? Do you remember where and when it occurred and why? Can you still honor that meaning?

In the words of the immortal John Lennon, a man I am happy to have known, all too briefly, "all you need is love." Let's pray he was right...