CROATOAN

<p> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I am an ardent student of American history as a matter of fact that most colonists came here chasing a dream or more strongly we came chasing the essence of love either in search of or escape from. This then begs a closer examination of what this term love truly is. If we take the Biblical description of love which is probably what most colonists had for reference then we find </span><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Love is patient love is kind. It does not envy it does not boast it is not proud. It does not dishonor others it is not self-seeking it is not easily angered it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects always trusts always hopes always perseveres. Love never fails. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(1 </span><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Corinthians 13: 4-8 NIV). Or as Shakespeare wrote closer to the colonists time frame in Sonnet 18 </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Thou art more lovely and more temperate:</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So long as men can breathe or eyes can see</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So long lives this and this gives life to thee.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whatsoever your definition it can find basis in one of these. As for me I stick to more of the Biblical sense of the term. The true issue here is that very little is accomplished without love a most necessary term that is not discussed enough especially in today's writings. </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I chose to write about this subject in the terms of John White leader of the '<em>Lost Colony'</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Certainly leaving behind his only daughter and grandchild Virginia. Why one may ask because I believe that this is an issue of love on our own shores that has not been truly explored or examined. If we understand the concept of love as addressed above or by some other definition why would White make such a decision?</span></p><p> </p><p> </p>