What Donna Lewis Taught me About Love

The other day I was missing Q and I decided to play Donna Lewis’s classic hit “I Love You Always and Forever.” There we were on the docks, speaker in hand together and growing apart, but love always and forever. Q is a trickster programmer who has found the mind hack to friendship might be the looping of memories that have a common touch point. 

From the heart wrenching Feels Like to the against humanity cadence of You've got the most unbelievable blue eyes I've ever seen. This is a song meant to be experienced as bodily as possible with lots of over dramatic interpretive dance. The first 24 hours of the song are the hardest. There is a moment of silence between the final every sin I will do for you and the starting Feels Like yield to the bliss of this silence as it becomes a bubble of peace like the sweet nectar of the goddess. 

The pledge is simple: 

Are you ready to love always,forever? 

Near 

And 

Far

Everywhere? I will be with you 

And the real clincher of the pledge 

Every sin

I will do with you. 

This summer we learned that these words helped us bond. It’s ephemeral artist found herself accompanying the crew towards the open playa where Brian shot us into the night via compression. She found herself at the birdhouse amid the jazz of night cats. Of course when shipwreck was captain she was there as we dodged the bridge but lost the seado. Everywhere she was with us. With each adventure our field of love grew more powerful and we could feel it near and far. That summer was a time of all the truth of our humanity hung out on the temple to dry. Every sin forgiven in the fire our cauldrons built then dismantled via persuasion and theater. 

All the fear and loathing transformed to always and forever—trauma bonded. 

Let us begin the every sin, I will forgive in you. Love will do it for you! 

We are putting the unconditional in the love game because real love looks like committing to the bit of always and forever.