 Romance/Love: February 01, 2012 Issue [#4854] |
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This week: Valentne's Day Every Day Edited by: Fyn-elf  
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius
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Yup. That day is comin' round again. Several years ago, my now hubby and I got into a discussion about Valentine's Day.
"Don't see what the big deal is" says he having no clue what he was letting himself in for. "It is just a day designed by Hallmark and all the florists in the world to make money."
"Something wrong with having a day where love is celebrated, remembered and acknowledged in a special way?" asks me all innocence.
"If folks are in love, they know it. Why the big deal? Never understood it; never will."
Oh dear. Yeah, we had a discussion, we did. He sent me an E-card about shooting arrows at Cupids. When you hit them with the arrow they crashed. I was SO not amused. The next day i bought a notebook. Every day for the following year...for 365 days, I wrote something about why I loved him or some special thing he did that day that I noticed and appreciated. The following Valentine's Day I left it on his desk so he'd find it in the morning. That night i got roses and a goofy stuffed dog that sits on my desk lo these several years later. My little blue notebook still sits in a place of honor on his desk...the ONLY place I might add that is not piled high with old mail, hunting schedules, screws, bolts or any of the other assorted 'stuff' burying his desk.
Should we remember to express love all the time? Yes. Should we remember that a back rub or some coffee brought without having asked for it is special? Yes. But the day is special and I for one love the added little special momento of the day. It makes me feel special. Which makes him feel special. Everyone feels good and life is just plain wonderful We stop and reaffirm and all is right with the world.
And I appreciate his thinking about it. Too many years there was no one to do that. Makes me super appreciate that there is now.
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Brooke  writes: What a great story Fyn, made my eyes tear up reading your poem too. Sounds like you had wonderful (and smart!) parents. I love your newsletters, they always have such a wonderful personal appeal. Keep up the great work. 
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