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The Benevolent Love Bomb

76/365 - Daddy's lucky charm, by bp6316The term “love bomb” has an iffy pedigree, an association with cults and the recruitment of love-starved loners.

I went on the offensive and love-bombed him. Sparkly sparkle charm quarks pinging out of my eyes, gosh he was the nicest man I had met all day ping ping, I would be so grateful for any help he could see his way to giving me. Ping pada ping.
~ Jessica Hines, Looking for the Big B

Too bad. Great term. Let’s re-purpose it.

Imagine the infinite uses of a benevolent love-bomb, a silly surfeit of doting, over-the-top, magnanimous, way way out there loving-up. Staff, family members, and friends gape in awe and go weak in the knees — from laughter or thrill or both.

Either way, spreading that much joy makes the giver’s day, too.

Flickr photo: 76/365 – Daddy’s lucky charm, by bp6316

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This was written by ownerceo. Posted on Monday, June 29, 2009, at 12:15 am. Filed under Community, Play. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Emily-Sarah wrote:

    Love the positive love-bomb. Definitely a definition and a repurposing we need to embrace … and share. Kaboom! Thanks for the love-bombs you sweetly, thoughtfully, powerfully launch on here. You yourself are quite the (love)bomb too! Gratitude and praise, Grace!

    Monday, June 29, 2009 at 4:02 am | Permalink
  2. jo martin wrote:

    Oh indeed! Wasn’t familiar with “love bomb” but had I been I would even more agree with you than I already do — yes! Let the repurposing begin!

    Thank you Grace — I agree with Emily-Sarah — you be the (love) bomb!

    Monday, June 29, 2009 at 7:38 am | Permalink
  3. Grace Kerina wrote:

    Bring on the silliness, I say! Love-bombs away!

    (And thanks for your love-bombs.)

    Monday, June 29, 2009 at 11:22 am | Permalink

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