217 – Love v3

Honoring Valentine’s Day this coming Wednesday 14th February.

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I like to walk on the beach. It is good for the mind, body, and soul – and refreshing on my feet.

In many of my beach walk essays, I include a quirky paragraph or two involving common idioms for the topic. While writing the essay to include as many time idioms as possible, the idea came to me to do the same with love for Valentine’s Day. I researched love idioms and then attempted to weave them together into sensible nonsense. Well, the time has come.

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We can fall in and out of love or love someone to pieces. We can have love at first sight or be head-over-heals in love – but do we want to love ‘em then leave ‘em? Then again, all is fair in love and war.

We know love is blind and love will keep us together. While love makes the world go round and conquers all, some love for the love of it while others debate between love or money. Some people have a labor of love, but is there love in a love-hate relationship? Surely, that can’t involve the love of one’s life. 

Love at first sight involves getting hit by the love bomb sending lovebirds madly in love. We can love it, love you, love life, make love, be lucky at cards but unlucky at love, play for the love of it, have a love-in, or be lovestruck – but each of us knows someone who loves the sound of their voice. 

Elvis asked to love me tender, but others seek plucking petals of a flower to determine if someone loves or loves me not. Even though money is the root of all evil, some can get love or money. 

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Tough love can destroy love because there is a thin line between love and hate, but there is no love loss between two people because the course of true love never runs smoothly.

Some say love conquers all, but others profess one cannot love and be wise, but love still trumps hate. We can love someone to bits, to death, but George Bailey told Mary that he loved her to the moon and back.

A love affair in the love nest could involve a love potion that causes the love muscle to have a love fest that may create a love child with a face only a mother could love. But for the love of Mike, Pete, and god, don’t forget that Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love. Then again, people love Valentine’s cards postmarked from Loveland, Ohio or Loveland, Colorado.

There are lovefests, love handles, love knots, and love triangles – but all the world loves a lover. We know misery loves company – but in the long run, love finds a way because love conquers all.

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We have loved ones, puppy love, a first love, and we can love it or leave it – but in the end, love breeds love just for love because lovebirds can be blinded by love, and it is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.

I love writing these beach walk essays, especially when I get to be quirky with idioms. With Valentine’s Day upon us, don’t forget to give and send love to someone – and seal it with a kiss of tender love and care. Meanwhile, I like to walk on the beach. It is good for the mind, body, and soul – and refreshing on my feet.

I’m linking to Jo’s Monday Walk above River Guadiana. Tell her I sent you.

See what other bloggers have posted about Love

• On the Way to Valentine’s Day (a poem)
• Love and Love Again (a poem)
• 7 Things You Need to Understand about Love (an essay)
• Valentine’s Day (a poem)
• Love and Stroganoff (an essay)

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