Longfellow once said "Love is the root of creation". Many have tried to understand and interpret Longfellow's words. Does "love is the root of creation: means love is all about creating children? This is for sure what we hope is the creation of children; out of love, but is that the full and complete purpose of this statement?
"Love is the root of creation". I close my eyes and say these words and many images come to mind:
A new bride and her husband looking into each other's eyes at their wedding ceremony - A young lady at the moment her Prince Charming proposes marriage with a sparkling diamond ring surrounded by a beautiful black velvet box in his hand - A young boy planning with his new puppy, the dog he will love for years to come -
An elderly couple, married for 55 years, taking their daily walk in the park, walking hand in hand, as they have done every day of their married life -
The creation is the outcome of the feelings of love felt between us, in our human experience. Love is the birthplace of the creation of our best thoughts and ideas. Love allows us the feelings of passion for what we believe in, passion for what we create.
As we celebrate Valentine's Day, we can reflect on the loves we have had in our past, the relationships we currently need to appreciate and the creations we will manifest with passion now and in our future. Any attempt to create without love and passion is a creation without heart and is doomed to fail. Lives without love and passion are doomed to exist, void of spirit and soul. Even a glimmer of light and love can bring the darkest soul to a better place.
Some might feel that in these supposedly difficult times: war, two jobs to pay the bills, confusion about what we are and what we believe, we should be more focused on the serious issues of our lives. I believe that we can influence the outcomes of the lives around us by how we react to life every day. Valentine's Day gives us the opportunity to do just that. It gives us the opportunity to say Thank You and I Love You to those most important in our lives. To stop and smell the roses as the old expression says.
Longfellow was so right "Love is the root of creation". The more we focus on today and the future; to create, the better our hope becomes, the better our joy becomes, the better our happiness becomes, the better life and love becomes.
Can you make Valentine's Day a day full of love and creation? I hope so. On this day take a moment, breathe in all the love in your life, the scent of beautiful red roses and savor the taste of fabulous chocolate! Feel the passion of life this Valentine's Day and every day of your life to come...
Okay, let me be the first to say: I’m so confused about Valentines Day. Is it a silver year or diamond year? Paper or plastic? Can’t I just give condoms? Wait a minute; I’m off base. I’m talking anniversaries, not V-Day.
Whatever happened to just waking up, rolling over and offering a kiss? When did brushing my teeth become an issue?
I don’t get this whole Valentines Day thing. Not at all, not one bit. First of all, I can’t afford it:
Chocolates: $10 Flowers: $30 (Delivery: $5 – plus tip) Dinner: $60. Wine? Add another $20-50 to taste. Movie? Optional, but at this point maybe 2 hours where we don’t have to talk might be a good thing.
The truth is, I’m at a loss. I don’t want to give another cliché gift or just give my partner whatever everyone else is giving. I want to go wild, without spending a fortune.
And so I turn toward a direction that I never thought I would: virtual worlds.
I recently pulled a stint in Second Life. I walked around for a few hours but found it incredibly hard to find anyone to speak to for more than a few seconds. I thought that I might try and buy and island or something (apparently you can buy virtual land there) but it was more expensive than the cliché Valentines Day package. Actually, I came dangerously close to cheating on my partner with some blond (would it have counted? We weren’t ‘really’ touching) but the whole thing came to an abrupt end when clothes came off and we realized neither of us had any genitals. Apparently virtual privates cost money there too – about the same as a real-world dildo, so what’s the point?
Upset and unsure about virtual appendages, I kept searching the Net and found Weblo.com. Weblo is another kind of virtual world but not a 3D kind. You can build pages (or profiles) on the stuff you register. They link to your own profile and you start a collection of what the community calls, virtual assets. Someone registered the Eiffel Tower – how romantic. I don’t speak French but I do it well.
Would you believe that I bought my partner’s favorite restaurant and I even found the resort in Spain that we liked so much… and all for $2!!! Ha! Now that’s the kind of bargain I’m looking for this Valentines Day. I’m soooo sweet. So, what now? Well, I put videos, pictures and a description of our trip on the resort page! That’ll be a hit.
Weblo sells virtual replicas – actually mini-profiles – of anything in the world. Our hometown was $5 and so, after buying it, my partner automatically became the mayor. Grand total? $8 and I’m still on top of my budget.
I bought the city of Coquitlam, BC, the restaurant where we met, Milestone's Bar & Grill, and our favorite vacation resort in Spain: Vera Playa Resort.
So, this year, before I get told to brush my teeth, I’ll have something that should keep us both in bed…
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