Love Mail is all about sending love out – without asking for anything in return. That concept is only a small part of something bigger, and deeper, which is loving others without expecting anything in return. I know that loving others is a choice, and I know that others need love even when they can’t give it back. Something that I very recently learned though, is that truth always comes back around. So even if others can ’t give the love back to me, someone else will. And the truth of the love that I gave out will come back in a way that I needed it most. According to the theory, 6 degrees of separation, which I find to be an exciting concept, was started as a story called “Chains” in the 1920’ s. 

It became a tested concept in the 1950’s and again in the 1960’ s. Then in 2001, data was collected that reviewed 48,000 senders targeting 19 people in 157 countries and found that the average number of intermediaries was 6! Microsoft was able to confirm the experiment by running a test, which found it to be an average of 6.6 hops. In 2016, it was discovered that Facebook had reduced the hops to 3.5. So why am I telling you all of this? Well, we know that every encounter that we have with one another ripples out to another and another and anotherwhether it be good or bad. We influence each other by our interactions even if small. The encounters we have with others ripples out across the entire planet, then ripples back, and comes back to us, and to our children, parents, and friends. These small gestures of kindness make our world better for those that we don’t know, and those that we do know. Although it may seem small, it could lead to something much bigger than you imagined, such as in the “True power of the domino effect”, a study from 1983 by Lorne Whitehead. The concept is that a domino can knock down another domino one and a half times its size. So, by starting with a domino five millimeters tall, and increasing the size by one and a half times with each progressive domino, it would only take 29 dominos to knock down the Empire State Building! So that is my true reason for starting Love Mail. To bless those in my home town, and to bless those across the world . . . to start something that will bring a smile to many people that I don’t even know, I won ’t ever meet, and I will never get the opportunity see how it blesses them. I just know that it will. And that makes me happy.