THE EDGE OF LOVE

It's quirky, love is. Some loves you choose, some choose you. It's the love that chooses you that is the most dangerous, the most haunting, the most promising. And the love you choose--that is how you make a life.

I was bored tonight, so I rented a movie out of the red box at Safeway, a BBC film I'd never heard of called "The Edge of Love." I chose it because it's based on the life and loves of Dylan Thomas and because I loved Keira Knightly in "Atonement" and she stars in this, too, along with Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys. It's well done, certainly worth the $1 and the two hours.

It's the edges of love that intrigue and instruct. And aren't we all living and loving on the edge?