HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Thought for the Day: 

Love is: The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

How do I love thee?

-Elizabeth Barret Browning to Robert Browning

How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways.  
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,-I love theee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Summum Bonum

-Robert Browning about Elizabeth

All the breath and the bloom of the

       year in the bag of one bee:

All the wonder and wealth of the mine in

       the heart of one gem:

In the core of one pearl all the shade and the

       shine of the sea:

Breath and bloom, shade and shine,-wonder,

      wealth, and-how far above them-

            Truth, that's brighter than gem,

            Trust, that's purer than pearl,-

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe-

      all were for me

      In the kiss of one girl.

Have a very Happy Day!

Esmee Lynne