All [we] need is love

Oh, the Beatles were so right, weren't they? Can't you just hear the tune in your head right now?

All you need is love...bum-ba-dah-dah-dah...

If raindrops were loving happy thoughts, and prayers and wishes, I can imagine with my mind's eye people running outdoors in the rain and standing with their faces up-turned, arms spread out wide - as if to embrace the clouds above - and catching those drops blissfully on themselves; soaking up the love and kindness like sponges. Dry, needy, shriveled sponges in need of a good soaking to be of any use.

Think about it, sponges are really very useless unless they are even slightly moist. Completely dry, they offer no purpose whatsoever for taking up the space they do. That is, unless there is some sort of spill which a completely dried up sponge could sop up. Say like in New Orleans a few years ago.

I hope it begins raining very soon in Darfur, and in Iraq and Iran, and in Afghanistan. Oh, and it should begin drizzling in Israel and along the Gaza Strip for years to come, too. If there were ever anywhere that needed prayers and wishes, and peaceful, loving, happy thoughts, words and deeds...those places would be just the tip of the iceberg, but an excellent start to what ails us as a planet and a race.

Everybody sing...All you need is love...love.

Love is all you need.