Frogs or royalty-love's grand
Mon, 02/07/2011
Does love find us - or do we find love? Haven't we all kissed a few frogs before finding the prince or princess of our life?
Or maybe you're still in love's process of transition. If so, may Cupid soon appear with a perfect Valentine designed just for you. For some, love is just a memory.
Blazing life's various love-trails is an adventure always to be remembered. Love is among the most intangible, yet precious gifts we give or receive. Indescribable joy and sometimes, miserable pain of love can be both breathtaking and or heartbreaking.
Author and poet Robert Frost wrote, "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Parents who fondly, or not so fondly, recall their kid's teen-age love-crush years appreciate author Jules Renard words, "Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up - as the brain empties."
John Ciardi wrote, "Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged and the mutual dependence of the old."
Regardless of one's age love-profile, sweethearts agree Valentine's Day should not be forgotten. It's said, "Love grows best in a fertile field of humor."
Gifts are tokens of love that inspire us. Partner for life relationships are wisely built on a foundation of love -- not only material things. The only winner in a not well thought-out marriage is the divorce attorney's bank account.
Oscar Wilde observed, "Men as a rule love with their eyes. Women love with their ears."
The man who stole my heart made sure there was daily time for us. We sat at the dining table evenings sharing ups and downs of that day. We often laughed at dumb things we've done in life, sometimes applauded wise decisions made, such as marrying each other.
We surprisingly met at Butler's Texaco Station gas pump. Days later we unexpectedly ran into each other at then Four Winds restaurant, now Mandarin Kitchen.
We discovered both of us were in throes of divorce from unfaithful spouses after 20 plus years of marriage. One year later, November 1973, we married.
During the years we laughingly joked about sending thank you cards to our former marriage partners for turning us loose in time to find each other. Our love was a Valentine's story, one that sadly took Gordy away suddenly with a brain hemorrhage in 1990-- five days before Christmas. Yet, he lives in my heart everyday with precious memories.
While I'm no expert about love, I am a graduate of enough life experience to say such love does exist and it's one very happy place to be.
Behavior of animals in some ways is quite like human feelings. Animals love their caring owners. Watch how big horses nuzzle up to their caregivers, huge elephants swing their long trunk over the shoulder of an animal keeper, dogs and cats play.
A study reports groundhogs are more motivated to return to their burrow by sexual desire or hunger than by weather and shadows. The little critter's heart has a mind of it's own.
For me, it's watching my little dog, Miss Katrina, run to meet people she loves, happily wiggling every moving part of her little body. Loving relations are demonstrated - or not - everyday we live.
Gifts of candy, flowers, dinner out and special love greeting cards are the stronghold of Valentine's Day in our century.
It's kind of thorny to celebrate good things such as love when our loved ones are fighting a war that should not be. In a world tossed with anger, flooded in greed, drenched with hatred, and not nearly enough true love, in even one spot, to drown out blazing fires of war.
Yet, perhaps here in America and other war-free countries, this is the perfect day to celebrate love, as someone said, "Recognizing love is indeed, the compelling oasis for all human need and existence, the balance that makes everything worthwhile, the catapult that energizes desires to create a better world.
Love starts in our homes. It's said, "Love conquers all."
Frogs or royalty - Ain't Love Grand! Happy Valentine's Day!