The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
Loss of control.
Like nothing else, I guess.
Relief. (Not like that.)
I think I over-apologise as it is.
In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.
I saw a very expensive painting by a wonderful American painter called Charles Burchfield. I really loved it – it hit me in the solar plexus – and I thought if I did three extra concerts on tour, I might be able to afford it. And I did.
Something triumphant, I couldn’t tell you what but something vibrant and joyous.
A botanist or a florist.
Working on my memoir because some memories were painful to revisit.
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