VALENTINE’S DAY OF SENTIMENTS, SAINTS, AND AND SALES (OH YES & PEACDE & JOY)
sometimes my writing sort of wanders around opening some doors and windows so that I show how I. Connect peace and joy to every day life. I’d like to say this is a clever technique, however, it’s not. This is just one of the ways my mind and soul runs through the world and I refuse to conform to some other logical patterns of writing. I’m sure it shock some to know that I am well aware that I’m supposed to tell you. What I’m going to tell you, then tell you, and finish up by Ellington you what I told you. I do that lasts thing sometimes. Anyway I said that to say this....today I’m starting ought with the end and then spreading out some dessert thoughts—some dove chocolates or some of those little pink rock-hard candy with cute little saayings on them.
So Peace and Joy and Valentine’s Day... A day. Dedicated to celebrating love can’t be all bad and feeling love in any form has to contribute to. Peace and joy. Therefore, when you feel like sharing that sentiment do so in your actions and your attitudes. Don’t wait for a particular day and especially just because you are supposed to or because everybody else is doing it. How to express love? Offer some of your soul to others—be that one or many. Don’t offer negative thoughts to people or about people. Now that is not always. Easy as it sometimes seems fairly warranted and congruent with how these people have hurt your feelings or treated you unfairly in a myriad of ways. Love means seeking fairness without seeking revenge.
If thIf. My words seem to be pretty clinical and fall short of “love” to you that’s good because no words can adequately express that feeling and I don’t pretend to be able to. Love is not something to be pretended.
Anyway make sure you find a lot of ways to express it and to be open to it that’s all....
...And now the rest of the things you should know about Valentine’s Day—
the rooot’s of Valentine’s Day are. Tied to an ancient Roman festival called. “Lupecalia.” The festival of spring celebrated romance and love and a very special feature. the festival included a lottery where singles were paired up for marriage using a lottery. No messy dating game questions, no Tinder, no chat rooms, singles bars etc...let’s just spin the wheel or pull out the ping pong ball and find your soul mate. Take that. True harmony. So it transitioned to Valentine’s Day through an ironic turn of events. It seems the Roman. Emperor Claudius II was having a hard time recruiting single.soldiers to go around all of. The known world using. Letters for Numbers and stuff—so he remedied this problem using a well-thought. Out solution. He made marriage illegal. This was. In 269 BC. Well it seems this “Valentine” named cleric decided to. Hold some secret weddings and unfortunately got caught. Well Claudius II threw. Valentine into prison for just long enough for him to fall in love with a slave girl who was bringing his meals and after learning he was to be executed he wrote her a note. You got it....the first Valentine. Luckily a stone chiseler named Hallmarcus the richer” was serving a short sentence across the dungeon for using alchemy to turn. Paper into gold coins and saw the. Exchange.
So as fate would have it. Valentine was put to death on February 14th, however, 7 centuries later he achieved sainthood for his actions.
A holiday was born.
So what else do we know about the holiday these days? Mostly we know that men spend about twice as much as women on this holiday because cards and roses are expensive and easy. How much do we spend on cards? Estimates place the dollar value of cards at about. 36 million a year making Valentines’ Day only number. Two to Christmas. It’s also estimated that in 2020 flower sales will reach 18 million+ stems. ... there is a lot of data available on how much candy is sold, however, I think the point has been made. We. Buy a lot of trinkets instead of figuring out the everyday ways we. Love each other and affirm them. We can find. Many many ways of opening up our souls , however, we choose to highlight the mundane. I’m not suggesting we do some. Illegal marriages in a land where marriage has been outlawed or write secret love notes like junior high kids. Try listening. To someone a little closer or a little longer, do some chore you usually don’t do, play a song someone else likes. In short show a little bit of you that goes beyond a piece of colored paper and some flowers you had someone kill for you.
Bottom Line find ways to love each other that aren’t the same old song. And dance... and really celebrate the effort made by someone else trying to show you love no matter how lame the effort is....
Well that’s. Enough for now...I’m going to see if there’s some she’ll spinnningapp that can be converted for a tinder deal... If it was good enough for the great Roman civilization I should be able to get people to. Use Apple Pay to connect with very special person.
More Soon XOXOX
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