Highway Unicorn The process of love is, as someone has well said, a journey not a destination. It is, isn’t it? That puts it in such comforting terms. For me at least. Love is a journey. We rarely realize this. How many marriages turn sickly, die, because those in them think love is a destination? How many parents have lost their kids because of this? How many friends, how many lovers, how many siblings have been shut out, rejected, turned away because we thought love is some kind of destination? An end? A final piece of work that was completed. In a ceremony. In a promise. In a hope. I think of Lady Gaga’s “Highway Unicorn: Road to Love.” It’s a wild song. It gives love expanse, room, a freeway. Love is a freewheeling emotion. A power deep in the soul. It burns. It weeps. It sings and laughs. It waits. It longs. It goes all the way. As Gaga sings it, “We can be strong, we can be strong Out on this lonely run, on the road to love” Don’t we all want to be there? Because in these
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