Hearts and ribbons everywhere
Signing for a day of love.
Let’s not assume it’s meant to be romantic
Let’s pretend instead, it’s the universe asking us
To be mindful of one another.
To give love freely,
As we’d like to receive it ourselves
Whether to partner or parent
Sibling or child
Friend or neighbour,
Colleague or client
Animal or mineral
Sleeping tree or winter flower,
Let’s beam
Love.
.
.
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Nadine inhales & exhales words & images from current vantage point in Auvergne, France. Thank you for reading. ❤︎
Lovely 👌❤️
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Thank you, dear David ❤️🔆🌷💛
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Lovely 💕
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
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Aw thank you dear Saania, Happy Val’s Day to you too, lovely lady ❤️🙏💕
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My pleasure, hugs! 🧚🏻♀️🤗
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😘🧚♀️🤗✨
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An approach like yours might almost reconcile me to Valentine’s Day. I usually just ignore it.
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Oops. I didn’t mean to embed that as a reply to anything except the post itself. Sorry. If it doesn’t seem to make sense as part of the conversation, that’s because it doesn’t.
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Don’t worry, happens to me all the time! :)) Thanks about Valentine’s Day, and I hear you on that. I’m not a fan of the unrealistic expectations built around it, as well as the commercialism, but I do like to celebrate love. And I must admit I was pretty pleased to receive a beautiful bouquet today, but that was a complete (and happy) surprise. I usually get them for myself if I want some. 💐(I like to feel independent regarding my own blooming happiness. ;))
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You remind me–I’m not sure this’ll make sense to anyone but me–of my mother’s approach to Mother’s Day. She called it Florist’s Day and never expected presents or cards, but when my brother and I made them for her she loved it.
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And now you have given me such a lovely post-Valentine’s gift, Ellen – miniature autobiographical snippets such as these, especially such lovely ones, are among the best textual flowers a comment can give, imho. You mom sounds like she was pretty awesome.
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She was. For layer after layer of reasons.
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Yes. Why not beam love!? 😺
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Why not, indeed Watt 😊😻
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I decided to share it with a lovely neighbor who happens to be a good dear and caring friend. Happy Valentine’s Day Nadine. 😊
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Aw how kind, I love it Joseph. Same to you 😊💛
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Lovely sentiment. 🙂
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Thank you 😊
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Such a beautiful sentiment
“Let’s pretend instead, it’s the universe asking us
To be mindful of one another.
To give love freely,”
Let’s xoxoxox
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Thank you, Rachel 💗
Yes, let’s 🌊☀️🎶🌷🐝
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Nice, Nadine. You are describing the Buddhist philosophy of metta, now called lovingkindness by mindfulness meditators (of whom I am one).
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Thanks Annie, and congratulations! 💞🙌🧘🏼♂️
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