First Kiss: An Animated Ode to One of Life’s Great Felicities

“…if the Great Mother rushed open the moon like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally unhooked from your wrist…”

“Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love,” counseled an illustrated field guide to kissing the year my grandmother was born. Why we kiss continues to puzzle scientists. That we do is one of life’s great felicities.

That is what Tim Seibles celebra...