Love is...

There are so many types of love!  That's the great news about life.  We can love our family, our friends, our animals, our careers and more.  Valentine's Day can sometimes push many buttons when it comes to love because it tends to force us to focus on ideal romantic love.  While romance is a fun element to enjoy in life, it is not the end all be all of living.

If you are one of the people who like to wear black on this day, I encourage you to focus on the other parts of love in your life that make you smile.  You don't have to get anyone roses, chocolates, or take them out to dinner!  You can just send them a little email or call to leave an "I love you" message.  That could help make their day as well.

Today, I dedicate to my 2 month old daughter (today!)  She is sleeping on my chest as I write this, snoring - wrapped in a pink blanket.  I'm beginning to understand a new way to love through my relationship with her.  In this relationship, I'm learning to negotiate needs, wants, and re-prioritize.

If you're having a glum day, remember that love is all around us.  No one can tell you what that means, how you should act about it, and how to relegate love.  Embrace your passions!!  You are enough.

Copyright 2011 Heather Corwin

Romance is NOT Dead!

There are times when I just don't have the words to tell my honey how much I love him.  So I turn to the people who have made words their life: poets.  Pablo Neruda is a personal favorite.    

Neruda's book of 100 Love Sonnets is one of my "go to" romance books...

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

DON'T GO FAR OFF, NOT EVEN FOR A DAY
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

~Pablo Neruda 

See what I mean?  *sigh*  Plus, in 100 Love Sonnets, the sonnets appear both in Spanish (how Neruda wrote them) as well as their delicious translation in English.  

Send your love (whether you have met him/her yet or not) a sonnet today!

Copyright 2010 Heather Corwin