“A bell is not a bell ‘til you ring it. A song is not a song ‘til you sing it. Love in your heart isn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away.” – Oscar Hammerstein II I was in 5th grade (back in the ’70s) when I first encountered this poem. A classmate of mine wrote this in my slum book. I didn’t know what it meant back then. I even thought that it didn’t make sense. Over the years, however, I found this very meaningful, very touching, and very enlightening. “A bell is not a bell till you ring it.” Indeed, a bell is…
