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Define Love

1/14/2014

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Love may be one of THE hardest words to define; it is so utterly personal.

I listen to teen girls; they love everyone. If I was to get out my journals from my teens years ::: shudder ::: I loved everyone as well, so it hasn't changed too much - they just say it all the time. It is a conversation sign off with sentiment, "love you!" rather than "buh-bye!"

In the 1970's our conversations didn't end with "love you." I can certainly recognize how much I loved my girlfriends, many of whom I am still in touch with. Having gone through the trenches of life with them over the course of the past 40 years, I love them even more now. Your story doesn't have to be retold - they lived it WITH you - via letters, email, phone calls, and certainly catching up on Facebook.

Romantic love is an entirely different kind of love. I know I was totally shaped in my teens and early twenties about how I expected/wanted/hoped/wished love to be. I wrote about it nearly a year ago HERE. Ah youth.

All I know for certain is you can't have too much love. It really is a cure for what ails you. Here's to love and it's many, many definitions. May someone smile though the phone for you today.

Remember I wrote about listening to a song on repeat last week? This is one I could listen to all day.

xo
It's in the stars
In the sun
It's everywhere
In everyone
And it will be every day

http://youtu.be/_OwUIIeuw8w
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For my mother - the new 'do and color. 
The resemblance to Janie is uncanny.
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Peg Buckley
1/14/2014 12:10:57 am

Holy Mackerel! Before I read your note all I could think was that you and Janie now DO look alike. Get her to Kathy and then take a selfie together:} Thanks for posting it and YOU LOOK GREAT.

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Maggie ~ your daughter
1/14/2014 09:59:40 am

Thank you mama!
xo

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Mary Sammel
1/14/2014 09:34:56 am

Maggie, my favorite saying about love is "The more you live -- the more you have". I said this often to my kids when they were younger after a comment like "You love _____ more than me".

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Maggie ~ TGHR
1/14/2014 10:02:04 am

MARY (!!)

Hi! I *always* tell me kids - "I love you more than your sister, don't tell her." And so of course I also say, "I love you more than your brother, don't tell him."
It makes for good times!

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Candace
1/14/2014 12:19:23 pm

I can tell the ones that just flow from you..... This is one of them.... Brilliant !!!

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Maggie ~ TGHR
1/15/2014 08:43:33 am

Aw ~ THANKS Candace,
xo

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moussa link
10/9/2024 06:43:24 pm

jevais vivre avec tois jusqu'à fin du jours

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