Kielia’s Definition of Love

 In 2012 I woke at 3AM. As usual I sat at my computer and began to write. The words flowed. As they say, the piece was writing itself. A short story about a linguistics professor from the future coming to Austin looking for the definition of a word she’d found in a tomb that made no sense in her time. Long before the concept of “Woke” was mentioned in public media this little school teacher lived in a world dominated by science. She was eighty-eight years old with the body of a sixteen year old. She had never tasted food because she derived her life force from the sun. She had never known her parents because she was conceived in a test tube. And she was ok with all this. All but that one word. An ancient bit of sorcery she had to understand to make her understanding of the universe complete. She mentally kidnapped a young real estate broker and while not revealing the subject of her quest she used him to clarify her understanding. And he used her. He demonstrated that in spite of all her technology, all of her science, all her linguistic abilities that she would eventually find her answer. And while she didn’t tell him the word he knew. He knew what was missing in her makeup. And when she finds the definition she discovers that the word would never make sense and yet it WAS sense. She finally tells him her mission is complete and she must return to her time to give her thesis to her university. And when he asked her what her mission was, what was the word. All this time she wouldn’t tell him for fear that he may try to change history but now she understood that she, herself HAD to change history and that her newfound friend already knew the word as she stepped back into the wormhole, touched her stomach and said, “Love! The word was ‘Love!’ We don’t have that!” And Kielia went home to the year 12,022 to spread the definition of Love to a sterile world! I can’t tell you how many awards the film “Kielia” has won to date because I lost count. My partner Vic Quinton interrupted our filming on set to announce our little Linguist had completed yet another clean sweep of another festival that would join the ranks of Cannes, Dubai, New York, LA, and yes, Austin when Kielia dropped by. In the words of the Prophet, Steve Jobs, “Treasure the people God gives to you . . . He’s gonna want them back!” 

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