The Viewpoint article by Jools Page ('Love, love.love...', 29 June-12 July) touched a very tender part of my heart and prompted me to respond. Her words chimed with my developing thoughts about how we actually demonstrate our love - not just for and with children (although this is crucial in their developing lives), but also with those adults who we meet professionally and more widely in our daily lives, whether they are familiar to us or not. In this wider sense I adapt a Quaker phrase, 'the welcoming acceptance of the other'* to incorporate and mean love in its widest sense.
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