First Love
My first Love was and is Creativity… specifically the sharing of…to me art is Love… no matter what shape it takes…visual, auditory, verbal, kinesthetic, etc…it demands a twosome…the giver and the recipient…as a child I was a spitfire of ideas…if I took up a project I would make several takes on it…who knows which was better or best…I viewed it all as an experiment…yes, a test…I like a challenge…that brings growth…fortifies the heart and propels the urge to share…
And as for humans…well not surprisingly, some poor fellow up the street from where I lived, who loved to share info…he seemed to know so much about the small creatures and plants that were surrounding us and everything really…he was unselfconscious…open to questioning…someone that spurred engagement with the world as material and spiritual…inspiring a desire to reciprocate and protect…we were six or seven…and his family moved away within a year or two…but in that short time he taught me how to be a Lover in the broadest sense of the word.