I am seating in my office and I am trying to write a paper on Christian missionaries that converted South Africans. I am also listening to Westlife on youtube. I am so taken by these beautiful love songs with beautiful lyrics sung by these Irish lads. In the past week, my mind has been pre-occupied with my “dream wedding”. I once thought I would never want it. I really want it now. And these songs that I am listening to are not seperate from these marriage thoughts.

The state of Iowa and Vermont recently approved gay marriage in both those states, and I think the uephoria around marriage is really exciting me. I feel so silly, but I have been selecting songs that I would play at my wedding and I have already narrowed it down to about 20 (rough estimate).

This talk about marriage, the love songs and their lyrics speaks of my longing to be in love. To have someone to share my life with. Someone to slow dance with. Someone to go with me to the movies. Someone to fight over the remote with. Someone I can make coffee in the morning. Someone who can order me my Jimmy Jon’s sandwich in my absence and get it right with all my modifications. I am enjoying my single life,  it’s just that I listen to songs like these  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjFfAxw5VRQ&NR=1  once in a while (well for a week now) and they get me thinking about my love life and how I want it to look like.  Here are the lyrics to the first stanza of “The Rose”! Tell me this doesn’t move you?

Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger
An endless, aching need
I say love it is a flower
And you, it’s only seed