Well, I've received my first comment - from a dear friend. I'll use that as all the encouragement I need to post another entry myself.

First, my thanks to the lovely and talented Marita. She has done the design and most of the work and provided invaluable help for me to get my web site up. Check it out. And she has provided the support I needed to get this blog going.

Second, my thanks to Marita for the right on the money response to the idea of the Love Virus. I do want to note that she has a particularly lovely smile herself so, in my mind, her smiles will generate more of the good stuff in the world than will mine. None-the-less, I'm taking her suggestion to heart. I may not actually count my smiles, but I will take on paying more attention to when I do have opportunities to "offer" a smile as an expression of love to others. And I will take on taking those opportunities - actually smiling - more frequently; most especially in relation to strangers.

Third, I intend to put together a class or seminar to bring together a few folks who are interested in developing ourselves as physical/ spiritual beings. Of course, I have the particular focus in mind of finding ways to express love such that we actually contribute to bringing forth peace on earth.

Love, Woodson

A love virus

The Love Virus is about looking for the opportunities that we have in our lives to express love as a way to spread love - like a virus - to those around us.

Even if nobody knows about it, we can express love that makes a difference. In some cases, when other people do know about it, it can spread. The intention is to infect more and more people with the notion that we can change the world by looking for opportunities to express love in our otherwise ordinary lives.

I noticed today that I was expressing love by washing my hands after using the toilet. It's something I usually do but it doesn't always occur for me as an opportunity to express love. But it is expressing love by honoring the well being of those around me. And, even though nobody else even knows about it, I have this sense that, as long as that is my intention it somehow makes a difference in the world - however subtle it might be.

Two examples where I get love being expressed by others. The more examples I see, the more opportunities I notice for me.

I love the line in the song What A Wonderful World (George Weiss and Bob Thiele): "I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' 'How do you do?' / They're really saying 'I love you.'"

I notice, when out in the country, people wave to one another - even including strangers like me - and that looks to me like a way to express love.

The purpose of spreading this virus is to bring forth peace on earth.

I would love to hear from anybody who likes this idea and/or has any fresh ideas on how to empower love as the dominant expressin of being human.

Love, Woodson