Love Is All Around You

Thousands of gay and lesbian couples will now be allowed to marry in California. How wonderful. How absolutely delightful that people who love one another can marry. If only they could do the same in Arkansas.

It's amazing to me that we even have to engage in these types of discussions. It seems so clear to me that every man and woman who chooses to marry, be that they marry another man or woman, should be allowed to do so. Gay and lesbian marriages do not, under any circumstance, affect the marriage rights or traditions of straight marriages. If anything, it strengthens marriage and, just possibly, also strengthens love we all know to be possible in the world.

It's always so delightful to see other people in love. It's such an interesting sight. Two lovesick people pining over one another when you're just starting to feel old, and maybe just a little bored, can make you think about why you love the one you're with.

They can make you think back to the time when you were also so lovesick, and cause you to remember what was so delightful in those butterflies in your stomach and the thought that "this just might be the one."

And sometimes, just sometimes, you find that you're just in love as you were 10, maybe 20 years ago. You've just put it on the back burner for other things--like the mortgage payment or a decision about what to have to dinner.

But sometimes you're able to see past the fight and the "you're not getting what I'm saying" moment to recognize that the person on the other end has been there. Always. Unconditionally loving you from moment one.

Life can sometimes be so boring. But love, real love, while occasionally too normal is always heartwarming and delightful.

Congratulations to my gay and lesbian counterparts in California. Hooray for you! It may surprise you, but some of us in Arkansas are behind you. 100 percent.

We support you. Even though our state doesn't recognize your love, many of us living here do. We really do. Congratulations. From the bottom of my heart.

And call me when you start to get bored. Love is all around you. Sometimes you just have to be on the lookout for that small piece of inspiration.

L.