Reading Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed. Each letter takes me deep into my past where I consider the impact of certain incidents on my life's progress. She mentions Adrienne Rich's poem Splittings which through a circuitous route brought me to starting this blog. The last line of that poem is "I choose to love this time for once with intelligence".  That means to me that I can choose how I respond to situations rather than allowing my learned emotional reaction dictating that response.  Love does have a cerebral element that enriches the emotional.