If you’re lucky, summer means warm weather and free time. It is a season during which the bold hearted experiment and the romantics invent epic medleys of unlikely compassion. Ewan McGregor once sang, “Love is a many splendored thing” atop a 150-feet-tall elephant hotel. We want the stories of those splendored things and why they’re worth emoting to the stars.
Taking after the New York Times’ annual “Modern Love” college contest, The Daily Californian brings to Berkeley our first-annual “Love in the Sun” summer essay contest. Love in the sun is love examined without fear. Perhaps you riotously abandoned tradition or devotedly lived it. Perhaps you love in the colors of culture or are writing a whole new language of human connection. Whichever way your love is splendored, it must be because you tell it so. So tell it to us here.