Happy Valentine

There is amorous love, there is pa-and-maternal love, there is Agape, there is love for what one does, for one-self, but no love is love if it is conditional love.

That does not mean you have to love the personality, but looking 'into' anybody you can still see the soul that is just love.

Love is unconditional!

May you and your valentines find real love, the 'stuff' that holds everything together.

Remember, love is only a thought - it is the connotations that you have with the thought that is important.

Just because it smells like a rose, does not make it a rose. Real roses, unlike the imitated smell you can get in a bottle, does not have a shelf life beyond its purpose. Real roses die and that is their choice, that's the way they are meant to be, because like love, we need to know that every moment love is created is has to die. Nothing last forever, but NOW does, the only moment where you can choose to love again, again and again.

True love is a choice, made every day.

"So you say you are in love. So what of it. Everything changes, there are always changes"

Joan Armatrading: Drop the Pilot.

We fall in and out of love, as sure as the sun surrenders to the moon. You see true love, like the sun and the moon is not in competition, they have to respect each other for who they are: different - thank the Creator, they are unique - and as to mother earth, not one of us can live without both of them.

We often fall in love with a picture of our 'significant other', but when that picture changes over time, we want to change the person to fit the picture we had of them in the first place. That is controlling and true love does not want to control. True love shares its needs, but never forces its wants. True love cares enough to be hurt. It does not retaliate, when injured - it communicates.

Love is the fuzziest word of all and yet it is the 'real-ist' emotion there is. Problem is love's always the Solution. No, not the excuse. Love will not cure any and everything, love does not make the wrong right. Love is not a potion, love is a notion. And the notion has as many highs as it does lows. On second thoughts, "low" reigns where love is concerned: It is the one who is down and out who needs love more.

So we have a day a year that celebrates love. Casanova has it all wrong: love is not the one you want, it is the one you're with.

Love you - as you are..and more, mon Cherie