Hello my friends! This is a bit more of a blog of whimsy than anything else. No big Star Wars theories or life issues. It's something that I had thoughts of recently. What is our fascination with romance? We seem to be drawn to such things in mass as humans. It dominates our culture. Our art, literature, our entertainment, our music, our sciences all have elements of the romantic. Maybe we don't even realize our infatuation with our own musings. I admit to it. I am a hopeless romantic. I make no apologies for it. Maybe it's the artist in me. Perhaps it's in part my own way of dealing with the Lincoln family curse of melancholia. It is what drew me to our favorite space opera. The idea of flying through space, Force users, a trusty droid by your side made my imagination soar.

What do we envision when we think of romanticism? We think of love, but it is much more. We can find romantic thoughts in almost all expressions of life. It is found in a young girls first kiss. It can be found in a young man's thoughts of honor on the battlefield. It can be in the couple holding their newborn child and dreaming of the perfection of life and the possibilities to come. It is in the tragic passions of the young lovers doomed in their pleasures. It is within the thoughts of the patriot weeping over their national anthem. It is within the traveler wanting to go home and is the person trapped in their homes wishing to make that first step onto the open road. It is in the one sitting in meditation by the mountain stream at sunset, contemplating the wonders of nature. It is the athlete seeking the elusive win, as well as the man lost within the past glories his younger days. It is in the artist creating from within their melancholy the captured soul of their subject upon their canvas. It is in the poet making offerings to all they have gained and lost through their verse. It is within the prose of one contemplating death but finding only eternal life. It is in the realist looking for recognition in their theories and searching for that final puzzle of the universe.

It is the young boy looking up to the heavens longing to fly amongst the stars.