Hi Tad,

Good to hear from you. Congratulations on the move to Temple. I recall something in the making, but was not sure if it actually happened. Temple will be a good spot for you. I think Edna might eventually decide on Bryn Mawr, although nothing is final yet. She has applied to some other schools, too. If it is Bryn Mawr, I will definitely let you know. It would be nice to see you more regularly. You have set yourself a real challenge to focus on love as a subject in the social sciences. It is a subject hard to define and nail down, that is, to be objective about. It seeps across the very self-other and subject-object divide on which science is constructed. It would be the social science equivalent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in which the observer and observed mutually affect each other. Of course we know that this mutual affection has been going on in the field all along, especially anthropology, even though scholars have pretended otherwise, leaving those moments on the editing room floor when it comes to producing the final document. We have to own up to our feelings and admit that they count every bit as much as rational discourse. Religion understands the connection between things, and that this love is central to religious discourse and practice, even though when it comes to actual practice, we adherents fall short. You mentioned coming this way before next Fall. Any time in mind? Of course you are welcome to stay here with us.

Nort