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Friday February 04, 2005 15:46 by Sean Crudden - impero sean at impero dot iol dot ie Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louth. 042 93 71310
Valentine's Day is No Joke Perhaps Valentine's day should be elevated to a status at least equal to Christmas and Easter? Surrounded by delicious spring weater (and sore and bickering politicians) perhaps we should turn our thoughts to love. How better to express love than in a sonnet? Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Ah, 'the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death' ~ Oscar Wilde
Saint Valentine’s Day
Saint Valentine’s Day, a holiday honouring lovers. It is celebrated February 14 by the custom of sending greeting cards or gifts to express affection. The cards, known as valentines, are often designed with hearts to symbolize love. The holiday probably derives from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalis (February 15). The festival gradually became associated with the feast day (February 14) of two Roman martyrs, both named St. Valentine, who lived in the 3rd century. St. Valentine has traditionally been regarded as the patron saint of lovers.
Sean hope you are keeping well did Christ not say to love. Valentine's Day was the day we got married. Christmas is about love when families come together to remember the birth of Jesus Christ in very humble settings. When you are in love you don't care where you do the business as love is blind and it is only when love runs out and you and the Mrs move to the outside of the bed that you realise that love makes the world go around.
Sean come to think of it life is about love both falling in and out of it. A night below in the Owl Strand is about love too as well as making love after when you get home if the belly dies not get inthe way Sean. Haaah!
Liam
Do you know any spare burds?
the pompous self agrandesing post sean wrote last week which he included comments by people who had attended his seminar. or this piece of turid prose waxing lyrically on a holiday used by corporates to sell us crap we don't need.
No wait I do know whats worse its the windswept shot of our narrator that he feels obliged to share with us in each and every post letting us know his real agenda, self promotion of his vacous ideals
I do and I don't know any spare birds, flemser. Liam mentioned The Strand (Omeath)?
People seem to get very worked up over what is, in the end, a holiday popularised by Hallmark with the sole purpose of selling greeting cards at a period when previously they had a lull in their sales.
While it is true that it coincided with a religious holiday (that being what they seized on in the first place) the whole concept of choosing one arbitrary day in which to "profess our love" by the mass consumption of greetings cards and over-priced soft toys seems to me another terrible nail in the coffin of acutal spontaneous human emotion fixing it into place as yet another knee jerk reaction to global marketing campaigns and the commoditising of every aspect of human life.
Or is it just that im single?