Recently, I found several French postcards in souvenir booklet from the 1900s. What caught my eye was that the cards were in series, extra charming, depicting the language of love in unusual ways such as the language of love in stamps. Depending on how one would stamp an envelope for example if the stamp was upside down it meant, "Believe in me" if the stamp was sideways it meant I like you.
If a stamp was put on like an upside down diamond it meant, "I am dying for your love".
I remember a conversation I had with Annie, where I was telling her about a friend who thought she had found love, then realized that the man she claimed to love wasn't perfect, and she couldn't deal with it. Before I could respond to what I thought about it, Annie chimed in:
"What do people think…really… do they think we fall out of heaven, all perfect and clean, into the lap of the one who is going to love us? Doesn't she know we are born, and go through life tumbling, dancing, and often bumping our head on the wall. We get dirty, bruised, collecting the good with the bad? Eventually, we fall into someone's heart… and hopefully with our body and soul, but we are who we are… wanting to be loved. Honestly, love helps us find our way."
The language of love speaks differently to each of us, some see love as more than skin deep.
Annie went on to say, "In a relationship when do you understand and accept another person's faults, let alone your own, and when do you let go and move on?
Annie summed it up as it is a weighing game, a measuring of the pros and cons. The trick is knowing when is it worth it and when is it a losing game.
I believe loving someone shows us who we are, and what we are capable of doing. Figuratively speaking, at birth we lose our way, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to find the path we were once on, to get back to the center of love. The Sacred Heart.
The language of love in hair, no joke.
I wonder what dyed white hair to blond means?
The language of birds.
The language of playing cards.
and the language of kisses as if those need explaining.
The card below looks like the guy is biting her neck, "Chocolate!"
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