love vs in love

It's funny that there's concepts that are _really_ difficult to explain, and yet - at least for me - clearly different.

While falling asleep last night, I found one difference that I think is consistently true (for me) between loving someone and being in love with them.

People I love, when I think of them, it's a warm, happy they exist kind of feeling.

People I'm in love with, in addition to this, is more of a... so much love it doesn't feel like it can be contained in me. It wants to spill out (often resulting in me telling someone I love them) and feels a bit like I imagine it felt when the Grinch's heart grew three sizes.

It's... bigger, I guess.

Poll time!

[Poll #1993483]

This may be my new favorite picture of a fox

It was _so_ curious about me, but any time I looked directly at it or moved, it'd dart away. So, look at it through the camera screen and don't move!

(I have no idea why there was a red fox at an east bay native animals nature center, but it was clearly quite spooked, unlike the grey fox it was with and displeased about)