At the end of his life, the great picture book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak said on the NPR show Fresh Air, "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die, and I can't stop them. They leave me, and I love them more."

He said, "I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the

world."

It has taken me all my life up to no

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Maybe love actually is all-around. In nature, in food, in sharing things, in a stranger’s kind look, in newness, in community, in friends, in lovers, in ourselves.

Maybe love is the most precious thing we can aspire to have, feel, let it make us vulnerable.

I just watched the documentary “RoadRunner” on Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he was always

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