One of my new, strange, little pastimes is playing poker on Yahoo! games. They have these funny little lounges where you can play “Hold’em.” I’ve mostly gone there because I’m too cheap to play the real, online deal against twenty-year-old Russians looking to steal my cash. So I was in one of these lounges just the other night and it was, as always, full. The IM function was humming with people texting each other as the games went on. It was clear that they knew each other from playing but it was not clear if they knew each other outside of this little environment with crummy fonts displaying their chatter.

What really struck me was how loving these people were. They were warm, familiar and very sweet with one another. But they weren’t at all exclusive or walled off. They welcomed me in and started loving me up. I lost hand after hand and I didn’t care very much because I was so into their vibe and I was fascinated by how a total group of strangers in a virtual world could be so caring towards one another. I didn’t see it as isolating, but viewed it much differently…as balm for those who did lead isolated lives in remote places.

Why am I sharing this little anecdote with you? Because you are a great and mighty lover and it’s time to claim it without judgment. Once you do, you’ll be able to find ways to share it with people in distant places, with little knowledge of who they are or what their story is. The world needs love and you have the goods. Let it out. Broadcast it. Drop the judgment, once and for all. The more you give, the more you’ll receive, even in the strangest little zones of our permeable realities.