A Canadian writer named Robert Munsch wrote “Love You Forever”, supposedly a children’s book … really a human being book. 

Mom holds her infant son, and sings …

I’ll love you forever

I’ll like you for always

As long as I’m living

My baby you’ll be

And decades later, mom is nearing death.  The son holds her, and sings …

I’ll love you forever

I’ll like you for always

As long as I’m living

My baby you’ll be

Yes … a circle.

I like circles.  So does the songwriter Joni Mitchell:

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

…

In the circle game

Someone invented a square.  I don’t like them.  They’re pointy and angled … and rigid.  Not what I want for my life.

My friend Glenn showed me a marvelous transformation – a square decides that enough is enough: “I want to flow!”  Here it is.  I hope you have Instagram.  (And I don’t know how to get rid of all the words beneath the video)

A cool expression of the circle is entwining in love, and climbing together.  We revisit favourite vistas … higher and higher:

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We curve

We dance

We listen to wise words:

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time

(T. S. Eliot)