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Valentine’s Day
Valentine comes from the Roman word Valentine, a term used to define early Christian martyrs. Long before Valentine’s Day started being celebrated as the day of love or lover’s day, it was celebrated to honor these Valentines on February 14, mainly the Valentine of Rome and the Valentine of Terni. The Valentine of Terni, or popularly known, Saint Valentine was a third-century Roman saint on whose honor people celebrate Valentine’s Day every year. He was commemorated on February 14 and hence the day came to be widely known as Valentine’s Day. Saint Valentine was associated with courtly love, wherein people courted each other before getting married in a chivalrous manner. When the famous Saint passed away he was buried in Via Flaminia near Ponte Milvio which was considered to be the northern part of Rome in those days. Saint Valentine is widely recognized as the Valentine of Terni, but sometimes people recognize Valentine of Rome to be Saint valentine as well. This is still an unresolved or better say an unanswered question as to who actually was Saint Valentine, The Valentine of Terni, or the Valentine of Rome, or the two of them together.
Valentine’s Day is probably celebrated almost everywhere in the world today. These celebrations and traditions on how a particular form of society celebrates love vary based on the place or the country. Mostly Valentine’s day is recognized as the day that celebrates love. but in many cultures, it can also be recognized as many other things such as the spring, happiness and so on. There are so many Folk Traditions based on Valentine’s day and the belief it holds among various cultures also differs with respect to the history of the day.
Communication
When talking about Valentine’s day, people always tend to recall poems on love, aminals like love birds that depict love, hearts, and heartfelt emotions, and so many other symbolic representation of love. In the earlier days, people expressed their gratitude and love for their loved ones by reciting poems to them. Mother Goose was an illustrative edition illustrated by William Wallace Denslow in the year 1901 and this poem of Mother Goose is probably the most commonly used love poem that has evolved tremendously over centuries.
“Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.â€
Today we have so many versions of this poem that it has become a cult classic for all types of love poems today. Roses are Red and Violets are Blue are the only lines that will constantly appear in each of the newer versions of the love poems. Some of the most recent versions are;
“Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue’
My heart is Full of Love for you.â€
“Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
You are my Sunshine, and I love you.â€
“Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
I’ve never met anyone as beautiful as you.â€
So, Valentine’s day was also a creative outlet for many lovers. But today, Valentine’s Day is a commercial festival in so many countries. The definition of how one celebrates the day has changed tremendously over the years. Today, we get all kinds of Valentine’s Day merchandise from Teddy Bears to cliched greeting cards to flowers in stores around us. Valentine’s day greeting cards are probably the biggest revenue generators of the festival ever. People get all kinds of greeting cards on Valentine’s day that cater to their needs, their interests and how their relationship works with their significant other.
And with the advent of the internet and the social media, Valentine’s day candle lit dinners and carnival outings have become old school and outdated. People today send greetings via text messages, they send flower icons on applications like WhatsApp and put up a status on social networking sites like Facebook and explain in detail how much they love and cherish their loved ones. Despite being an International Day of Love, Valentine’s day has somewhat lost its charm by becoming overtly publicized and demeaning. The United States of America generates the highest revenue for Valentine’s day every year and it has only been increasing with time. Every year about 190 million Valentine’s Day greeting cards and bought and sold or are sent across via mail. This is excluding the greeting cards that school children exchange on Valentine’s day! Valentine’s Day is deemed today as a Gift giving the event that is highly commercial and unnecessarily expensive. Big shots like Hallmark, Walmart, etc. make a fortune just because of Valentine’s day every year. And to generate interest in the public minds, they come up with catchy and feel-good ads for people to reel and spend a large sum on greeting cards and gifts.
Valentine’s Day is deemed today as a Gift giving the event that is highly commercial and unnecessarily expensive. Big shots like Hallmark, Walmart, etc. make a fortune just because of Valentine’s day every year. And to generate interest in the public minds, they come up with catchy and feel-good ads for people to reel and spend a large sum on greeting cards and gifts. The gift giving tradition has only increased in heaps every passing year.“Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you.†This is the most traditional form of the poem that is most often used to denote love since its inception. So basically, what’s Valentine’s Day without beautiful Love quotes? The Most common Valentine’s Day greeting is Happy Valentine’s Day, and this is also considered to be the most common quote. Lovers tend to express their love using these quotes to their significant others. These quotes complete any form that tends to express or represent Valentine’s Day tradition. Take Greeting cards, for example, does any Valentine’s Day greeting card ever not have a quote? And even if it doesn’t a lover usually tends to write one on the card to express his or her love. Even picture cards tend to come with captions that are love quotes for Valentine’s Day. So if Love is the only Gold for Life, then Love Quotes are the Gold for Valentine’s Day, the day of love.
Valentines Day Quotes
Love surrounds us like light. We are warmed by the charm of our devotion.
Its does sounds funny, but yes, if a kiss could tell how much i love you, i will keep kissing you forever and ever.
A day without you in my life will never come and even if it does, let that be the last day of my life.
You’re not dating yet, so you don’t want to come on too strong—use one of these cheesy pick-up lines to make your valentine smile.
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height my soul can reach.
I never could have accomplished what I have today without the love I feel from you!
The first time you touched me, I knew I was born to be yours. – valentines day quotes for friends
Also Read Valentines Day Quotes For Him
I always thought the perfect guy was a dream. Someone who was made up in a movie or a book. But I realize even more so on this Valentine’s Day that my perfect man is you.
It would be great if Valentine’s Day came with a fast-forward button.
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This Wednesday marks a sad anniversary for me, but it’s important to share. Four years ago, on February 19, 2010, I gathered together with my family and our veterinarian to say good-bye to the big, beautiful Pit Bull who had been my right hand dog for sixteen years.
A lot of my fans remember him. Daddy. And to those of you lucky enough to have met him, you saw what I always knew. Daddy was a very special dog. He was with me way before I became famous, and he was also the one who chose Junior to become my next right-hand dog, after rejecting my first two choices from that litter.
What a lot of people may not realize, though, is how much Daddy taught me.
It all started twenty years ago, when Daddy was four months old and originally belonged to the rapper Redman, whose career was just starting to take off. Because of this, he sought out a trainer and found me, and then Daddy wound up joining my pack after Redman realized he wouldn’t be able to care for him properly because of his schedule.
From the beginning, Daddy was balanced and calm and he got to know a lot of different dogs from early on, so he was always well-socialized. It didn’t matter what other dogs did. If they tried to be aggressive he would just walk away, and he would let little dogs do anything to him. At one time, there were two small Italian greyhounds in the pack who would climb up on Daddy and sleep on him and he’d let them.
Daddy was a natural leader and other dogs would follow him instinctively, which is how Junior wound up joining our pack by the way. Daddy picked Junior from the litter and Junior followed him when he walked away. I thought I already knew a lot about instinct when I first met Daddy, but he taught me something I hadn’t realized until then: don’t think, just do.
I’ll give you just one example. Back when I was the host of “Dog Whisperer,†one of the dogs I came to work with was Viper, who was trained to sniff out illegal cell phones in prisons. However, Viper had developed a severe fear of humans, which made it impossible for him to do his job. When I came to help, Viper hid under a table and nothing I did would convince him to come out. When I let Daddy in the room, he walked right up to Viper and led him out of his hiding place like it was nothing.
It was one of those moments when I got to see calm, assertive energy in action from the outside, and a reminder that this is what Daddy taught me from the beginning. He never intellectualized things. He just knew what to do instinctually, which is exactly why other dogs would follow him instinctively.
Daddy and I understood each other without words and we could read each other’s moods perfectly. This was the greatest lesson he brought me: how to connect. It’s also the biggest secret to getting your dogs to behave. Before you can train a dog or rehabilitate a dog, you have to connect, but you can only do it by using your instincts and communicating with your energy.
Even though Daddy is gone, he will live on in my heart forever, and I can definitely see the influence he had on Junior in their time together. If you use your time with your dog to truly connect, then you will also create a bond and a love that are immortal.
Read more: http://www.cesarsway.com/the-scoop/features/Remembering-Daddy?utm_source=BlueHornet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feb14NL_3#ixzz2tfsWP1xU
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Expect A Miracle
Wherever I go, I carry a small gray stone. It’s in my purse all day, tucked under my pillow each night. And on it are painted three simple words: Expect a miracle. I did expect one, and against all odds, that’s exactly what I was given.
A year ago, when I first had bloating and pains in my pelvis and lower abdomen, I passed it off as side effects from the estrogen I was taking for menopause. But driving home one day, the pains got so wrenching I nearly crashed my car.
This can’t be normal! I thought in fear. I’m a nurse, so I raced to my medical books as soon a I got home. Almost as if I were directed, I picked one from the shelf and opened straight to the page on ovarian cancer. A chill raced down my spine as I read the symptoms, bloating, pain, frequent urination…I had every one.
“We’ll have to run some tests,†my doctor said after examining me. “But it could be ovarian cancer.†Driving home, I felt so scared I could barely breathe. And when I walked in the door, my husband, Rich, took one look at me, and hugged me close. “We just need to pray,†he told me.
But my test results were terrifying: I had a large tumor, and a blood test that indicated the possible presence of ovarian cancer read 462, normal is 30. I’m going to die! I wept.
That night, I forced myself to stay calm as I told our two teenage daughters that I had cancer. But when I saw the fear in their eyes, my heart nearly broke in two. So I wouldn’t burden them with my fear, I said I had to run to the store and slipped out to my car, tears coursing down my cheeks.
In my mind, I pictured all the faces I loved: Rich, the girls, our five other children through previous marriages, parents, friends…
Oh, God, please don’t take my life, I pleaded. I still have so much to live for.
“Don’t do this alone,†my priest told me when I cried to him. “Let others help you.†And the next day, all those faces I pictured the night before were in my home, surrounding me with their love.
Their love carried me through my surgery to remove the tumor, along with my fallopian tubes and ovaries. But I was far from out of danger. “You still have only a 15 percent chance of making it,†once doctor told me. “Your only hope is chemotherapy.â€
Half crazed with fear, I began making frantic bargains: if you heal me, God, I’ll be a better wife, a better mom, a better person. Just give me a second chance.
I had six chemo treatments, one every three weeks. Sometimes I thought I wouldn’t make it through them, they made me so weak and sick. But when I most needed a boost, a friend would show up with dinner or drop by to take the girls out.
Folks even organized fund-raisers to help us pay my medical bills!
Bouyed by so much love, I knew I owed it to others, and to myself, to stay optimistic. So I read books on healing and listened to tapes that helped me visualize getting well. I’m not giving in, I’d think. Rich was my strength whenever I felt afraid, praying with me and holding me. My daughters stayed positive, too. Lindsay, 14, and Sarah, 16, refused to believe I would die. “You’re going to be all right, Mom,†they’d say.
But after my last treatment, I faced a terrifying moment of truth. Doctors were going to take 100 biopsies, one in ever place they feared the cancer might have spread.
“To be honest, we don’t expect to find you’re cancer-free,†they warned. And if the chemo hadn’t destroyed the cancer cells, my chances for survival were slim.
I could feel terror creeping into every fiber of my being. I can’t give up hope now, I thought fiercely. So before leaving for the hospital, I opened the drawer where I kept a good-luck symbol a friend had given me, a small, hand-painted rock.
Expect a miracle, I read, then slipped the stone in my purse. The stone was still in my purse the next day, when I opened my eyes after surgery to find a pretty woman with dark hair and a white dress leaning over my hospital bed.
She must be a nurse, I thought. But she had no pills in her hand, no blood pressure monitor to hook up. Instead, she looked at me kindly and asked, “Are you the one who’s looking for a miracle?â€
Confused, I stammered, “Yes.†But how did she know? I wondered. Then, before the question left my lips, she’d vanished.
The next morning, the woman in white was beside me once again. In her hand was a plaque that read: Miracles Happen Every Day. “Is this what you’re looking for?†she asked gently.
Tears sprang to my eyes, but before I could say a word, once again she was gone. As I gazed at the plaque she’d given me, I felt a funny tingly sensation throughout my body…
“Dawn,†Rich said as I groggily opened my eyes, “the results of the biopsies are in. They were negative, each and every one!†I’ll never know whether the woman was a nurse, or an angel. but it doesn’t matter. She came to let me know that hopes are never foolish, prayers never wasted.
Today I’m 49 and cancer-free. And each time I hug my daughters, share a quiet moment with Rich or just watch autumn leaves scuttle across the sidewalk, I remember again that every new day is a blessing, a new chance to expect a miracle.
By: Dawn Stobbe
Submitted by Richard
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