Now Available:
"You're My One and
Only" Valentine cards in the Large Economy Multi-Pak!
Like Math?
Love
cannot be defined in any single word or group of words. It's like math;
a simple idea that can get very complicated. Specifically,
love
is
like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. It's like
realizing the
formula for the meaning of life, an elusive yet simple and immaculate
equation
that reaches to infinity. To love another is to see the face
of
God.
Some,
once popular, valentine symbols are no longer commonly used today. One
of these
is the true-love knot. This knot consists of graceful loops, sometimes
in the
shape of a heart, with no beginning and no end. On these loops are
written
endless love messages which are read by turning the knot around.
Young
men and women in the Middle Ages drew names from a bowl to see who
would be
their valentines. The names would be worn on their sleeves for one
week. Wearing
your heart on your sleeve has since come to mean that you readily let
others see
your feelings.
On
the Roman holiday Lupercal (February 14th) the blood of sacrificed
goats was
smeared on two special young men who would run around the streets
of Rome carrying strips of goat hide. Women would try to be
beaten with
these strips which were known as februa (purifiers). February thus gets
its name
as the month of purification.
We'd
like to say something soft & sweet right here...
"Marshmallow"
All
the world loves a lover except people who are waiting to use the phone.
"The
strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung."
-Walt
Whitman
"For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most
difficult of
all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for
which all
other work is but preparation."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
If
you
are not a poet, perhaps you can be the poem.
"It
(love) is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." -
Leonardo da
Vinci
