/tags/red-red-wine/Recent content in Red-Red-Wine on Late BloomsHugoen-usTue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000/posts/valentine-favourites/Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000/posts/valentine-favourites/<p>Who doesn&rsquo;t remember the love songs of their youth?  Those lyrics that reached right into the adolescent heart where the first flames of &ldquo;forever&rdquo; love and &ldquo;happily ever after&rdquo; love burned.  Those songs were sung over and over again, played on the radio every day, danced to at every party - and it&rsquo;s hard to forget them or that time in my life.</p> <p><img alt="Valentine&rsquo;s Day Music" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DSC04471-300x286.jpg"></p> <p>Some of you may also have fond remembrances of these songs and the romantic feelings that they engendered in youth.  I should add that Valentine&rsquo;s Day is very different for me at this stage of life.  I feel the universality of being loving and being loved as fundamental to life and am glad that this day makes me think of others this way.  <strong>“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”</strong> <strong>― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness</strong></p>