Thought for the week: Noël Staples’ four-letter word

‘Revealing love for the first time makes us vulnerable, requiring trust that the recipient might love back.’

by Noël Staples 1st March 2019

Love: there is probably no more difficult word to define. My 1979 Oxford English Dictionary devotes four pages to it, before loveache, loveage and love-apple, ending with lovingness. The well-known song tells us that it is ‘a many splendored thing… nature’s way of giving a reason to be living’.