Love Challenge Continued: Day Nineteen

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

~Albert Einstein

Love Continued: Day eighteen

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.

~Zelda Fitzgerald

Love Challenge: Valentine's Day

Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire.

~ Molleen Matsumura

I was all set to write a long blog today. After all, it's Valentines Day, a day set specifically aside for declarations of love. And I could. I really could write lists and lists of all the things and all the people I love. And if I took the time, I could probably write something that would make people cry. But here's the truth. Even for a writer, there are some things words can't express.

Words can't express how my kids carry the jar that holds my last breath. Or how my husband is not only my sturdy oak, but also the soil, water and sunshine.

And my family--in all their various personalities, beliefs, and circumstances--is a parachute that always opens.

Or my friends who are like the milk in my cereal because I could probably live without them, but my life is so much better with them in it.

And all the people who have walked in and out of my life and helped make me into the person I am. Who have inspired me and supported me and loved me--even when I didn't deserve their love.

No, words can't express the way I feel. Not today. But I love them all anyway. They're characters in the story of my life.

And so I dedicate it to them.

With all of that, how can I not believe in happy endings?

Love Challenge: Day 12

Is it so small a thing

To have enjoy'd the sun,

To have lived light in the spring,

To have loved, to have thought, to have done...

~Matthew Arnold

I love LIFE!!! Even on bad days, I get to go to bed knowing that it all starts over in the morning. I breathe in and out, live second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour and day by day. And even though I may regret some of my actions, I don't ever regret a single minute of living. Life itself is an incredible and precious gift that can be taken from us when least expected. I tuck my kids in bed each night, and never forget to tell them how much I love them...just in case.

Love Challenge: Day 11

I just realized I'm running out of days to post my love quotes and pictures. Four days until Valentines day, and I still have a long list to share. And I'm enjoying myself. Not only am I blogging a little something every day, but also, I'm going through a list of all these fabulous quotes, poems, and graphics each day and...well, I'm just not ready to be finished posting them yet. I keep trying to pick my favorite, and the truth is, I end up posting my favorite of the day on each day that I post. So, as you can see, I don't really have a favorite. I choose which ones to post according to my mood.

So, if it's all right with you (the readers) I'm going to plan on posting as often as I can for the rest of the month--or until I run out of material. (Ha, like that will happen!) Also, if you haven't noticed, my playlist this month is full of some great soft sounding love songs. Give it a listen if you have a minute or an hour.

Now, on to today's quote:

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. ~Hobbes (of Calvin and Hobbes)

Today I love to dream.

Dreams are the things that make the future exciting.