Gee, thanks, Gang! See? I knew Mudcatters were metaphorically-minded!

I love your take on "falling" in love, Kat!

Love may indeed be like a raging river (or an ocean QV The Water is Wide), McGrath, but I've yet to experience that {Thank goodness! Sounds awfully Soggy ;-)}.

My first impulse, on hearing the topic back in November (Well, second, after the "Well, I'm stumped!" response) was to write about falling in love with language, as a very young child -- learning its rhythms and cadences, and the tricks it could play, and what it could do for me... But that was so long ago, that I don't remember when, or if, I first had the sudden recognition of it.

Learning to use it well certainly changed my world, though. Right now, that is looking more and more like the best bet for me.

BTW, the Art Garden is in Garrison, NY (across the Hudson from West Point Academy, more or less), at the Depot Theater -- if any 'Catters are around that way, and want to meet...