LOVE IS LOVE
My most memorable Valentine's Day was in 1983.
I felt like I'd won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Grand Prize.
All day long and into the evening he made sure the gifts, stuffed animals, cards, flowers, calls, candy came non-stop.
It was so wonderful I took pictures of the gifts - No, not of him just all the great presents he brought to me. (I still have the pictures :wink-wink
Fast forward 11 years when I received my last V-Day gift in 1994. I believed it was more of a guilt gift because he had a mistress.
We divorced two years later. I think that's when I fell out of love with "romance" and went in search of LOVE.
This is exactly what I'm celebrating today. LOVE came to me in the form of the best gifts those two aforementioned men could have ever given me; my three baby girls.
Through my daughters, I learned the truth about AFGREKI' (Ethiopian: LOVE). LOVE is not what you're looking to get LOVE is what you give.
It is the only thing I know of you can give away in abundance but never feel empty. The reason why is so simple it's child's play.
Thank goodness, my daughters let me in on the secret before they were too old to remember.
My daughters taught me how to RECEIVE LOVE.
So without further ado, My Teachers, My Students, My Daughters...
Copyright (c) 2011 Mel Hopkins
Photo Credit: Eros and Psyche by Alix Beaujour
you love it so much?! ::lol!:: happy valentine's day, ma-son!
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LOL! I really do...Thank you for the lesson! Although I'm not quite sure what phase I'm in learning: "Awareness, Awkwardness, Application, Assimilation or am I in the bonus round: ART?
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