Moonlady Holiday Compilation: Valentine’s Day ~ 02-14
Moonlady Holiday Compilation
Valentine’s Day
Conventional Valentine’s Day
Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
History
http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day
The Origin of St. Valentine’s Day: The Pagan Festival of Lupercalia
http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/pagan-festival-lupercalia-origin-st-valentines-day
Antique and vintage Valentines, 1850–1950
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day#Antique_and_vintage_Valentines.2C_1850.E2.80.931950
Valentine’s type days around the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day#Similar_days_celebrating_love
Spiritual Valentine’s Day
Find a Deeper Love this Valentines Day
http://www.spiritual-happiness.com/valentines.html
Suggestions for making your Valentine’s Day–and your relationship–more spiritual
http://www.beliefnet.com/Love-Family/Relationships/Holidays/Valentines-Day/Valentines-Day.aspx
Practicing Love on Valentine’s Day
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/days/features.php?id=10960
Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness music video
Random Acts of Kindness local group
http://www.meetup.com/randomacts/
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/
Human Kindness Foundation
Kindness Awareness Week: February 12 – 18, 2012
http://www.kindnessusa.org/
Kindness : A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
spoken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35c4nw9nMk
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.
by Naomi Shihab Nye from “Words Under the Words”
