Love’s Dynamic

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Self-educated businesswoman, artist, wife, mother, grandmother are labels acquired over a lifetime. The life contained within the words has been rich in both experience and learning on a journey that has had many ups and downs, twists and turns.

The mother of two sons and grandmother of three, I live with my husband, James, in the small , but magical, community of Powell River on the Upper Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada. We moved here in 2005 to pursue our art (Loving Creations) and enjoy semi-retirement from the hectic pace of demanding management jobs.

Although an avid reader from childhood, I was twenty-five before I discovered a talent for writing, of all things, government documents and correspondence in my capacity as Senior Municipal Clerk. In subsequent years the business writing expanded to include published interviews, formal appeals, business reports and marketing material. In my early thirties writing became a means to communicate thoughts and ideas on life. The resulting collection of journal entries, stories, letters and poems reflects two decades of turmoil, change and growth (see Love Counts).

In the fall of 1990 the seed for Love’s Dynamic was planted by way of a dream. In the dream I climbed out of a suffocating black hole to stand on a high plateau. Behind me was a panorama of mountains and valleys with a road that twisted and turned, which I knew represented my life to that point. In front of me was a gate in the middle of a wooden fence that extended from horizon to horizon. In my hand was a large key that I knew opened the gate. But I wasn’t ready to open it. Instead I looked through a knothole and saw only the faintest outline of mountains and sky. Again I knew why. I was being given the opportunity to paint my own future and it could be anything I wanted.

As dreams do, one led to another. In the second dream I was in a foreign country giving a lecture on love to a small group of people influential in the affairs of their country. The invitation came as a result of the popularity of a book on the subject of love. It was then that I had the first inkling of my heart’s desire and what I wanted the picture of my life to look like. At the core of my being, more than anything, I wanted to write and talk about the power of love for change in the life of every individual and in the world.

Dreams, however, seldom come true in an instant. It took sixteen more years of life, living and learning to put pen to paper and start writing Love’s Dynamic - Understanding the Energy and Power of Love. The book at this point is still being written so the dream is still in the making.

Norah LeClare
August, 2007

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