A CELEBRATION OF LOVE

"What is this thing called Love? What? Is this thing called Love? What is this thing called? Love." - Cole Porter

Dictionary.com defines love as "a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness." Wow! All that technical jargon to describe a feeling I don't even think can be illustrated in any other medium other than pure emotion.With only six words and a playful use of punctuation, Cole Porter more appropriately shows love to be just what it is: indescribable. Whether it's a heaviness or light of heart you feel, love has a way of making itself known in the most creative of ways from the most various of sources: a parent, a sibling, a friend, a boy/girlfriend, a grandchild, a grandparent, a co-worker…even a stranger.

A lot of people don’t believe that love can come from someone you’ve never met. But I have this faith that tells me that there are people in this world who are so full of love and kindness inside of them, that they emanate it with one glance, one touch, one sound. That’s the person we should all strive to be, for true, honest, genuine love knows no limits.

Valentine’s Day isn’t a holiday designated to promote the gift of love. We should be promoting such greatness daily. Today is the day we CELEBRATE love and our privilege of having so much around us, even if we sometimes don’t see it right away.

I can’t say enough for the gifts of love I have in MY life. This weekend gave me more reasons to believe how much this is so. Whether it’s an evening out with friends for a movie, late dinner and show, or an afternoon lunch with the family, or a text or phonecall greeting me Happy Birthday, I KNOW that my cup of love overflows. Thanks so much to everyone who made this birthday and Valentine’s day the special days that they are. I know love only because of all of you!