SO MANY WAYS TO LOVE

 

FUNNY VALENTINES

There are many kinds of Valentines you can send. Flirting is not serious.  So send a FUNNY Valentine.  This lets a person know you're interested but doesn't put pressure on them.  And the best way to avoid making them feel pressured is to give them a Valentine like you would when you were in grade school. If you can, choose a vintage valentine from when they themselves were in grade school, which will have a tinge of sentimental value.  (Got that?  If they were born in 1960, aim for 1965 - 1968!) Luckily there are Valentines all over the Internet that you can print out in color.

How will he or she know if you just gave them the Valentine because you're giving them out to all your friends.  They don't.  Which is good.

ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU

 

LA FEST DELGI INNSMORATI - THE FEAST OF LOVERS : VALENTINES IN ITALY

 LA FESTA DEGLI INNAMORATI - THE FEAST OF LOVERS

This may surprise you, but Italian Valentine's Day is only for couples - sweethearts, lovers, partners. So if you have an Italian who you thought you were friends with, but now you're getting a card or flowers, maybe he's thinking of you a different way.

Other than that, it's much like in the United States, a day for gifting your partner with romantic cards, poetry, flowers, chocolates - especially chocolate covered cherries, going out to dinner.  And to imbibe in wine with dinner. It's a popular date for marriage proposals. 

The Italians take credit for establishing the holiday to start. February 14th, however, turns out to be a celebration of the ancient, pagan Romans. The Queen of the Roman pantheon of Gods and Goddesses was Juno and she was celebrated as a patroness of women and of marriage.

About 800 years before the best candidate for Saint Valentine was born, this spring festival was also about fertility. February 15th was the feast of Lupercalia in Rome. The idea was not just to bring fertility to humans but also to crops and animals.

What did the pagan Romans do for their festivities? One story is that young men and women would draw names from an urn and whomever they picked by this method became their special friend for a year, a year in which they might decide to marry. Or perhaps that's a bit censored: Maybe they actually enjoyed each other for a year and before the year was up they had to marry.

SMITHSONIAN : 10 Customs of Valentine's Day

HOLD ON TO YOUR HEART

VINTAGE LOVE

TO MY VALENTINE

WILL YOU RECIEVE VIOLETS OR ROSES?

A friend (of a friend who owns a floral shop in Southern California) tells me this. "On Friday nights the Mexican-American men come in and get Violets for their wives and Roses for their Girlfriends." 


Interesting!


Well, let it be known that today is considered to be VALENTINE'S DAY for MISTRESSES, the day before the actual holiday when married men who also have a girlfriend are known to remember their Other Woman with flowers (and other treats.)

TO MY VALENTINE

MARVIN GAYE - SEXUAL HEALING - ACAPELLA

WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE?

I HAVE A LEANING FOR YOU

CUPID'S OFFERING TO YOU

ROSEY CUPCAKE

LOVE IS NEVER VINTAGE

CUPID love CUPID