There are holidays for everything. There's one for being thankful, another for patriotism and a Sunday to honor your mother. Secondary celebrities have their heyday too, like laborers and flags. I didn't realize until today that two gentlemen figured out how to
celebrate their birthdays twice every year, simply by traveling to a different state.
1. Twice the presents, double the cake.
Today is famous for commemorating love. Card companies have long been cooking up ditties to send to your sweetheart.
Baby you must
be a broom, cause you just swept me off my feet.
Let's flip a coin. Heads you're mine. Tails I'm yours.
A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.
I am glad that affection ranks up there with soliciting candy in the neighborhood, and four leaf clovers. But what is a sure fire way to say "I love you" to the person whose life is intertwined with your own?
"I cannot heave my heart into my mouth", says
Cordelia to her father, the King of England. Shakespeare is king of the pen, and scribed sonnets enough to supply a starry eyed suitor for six months. But the youngest princess was not inclined to shove her devotion into a string of syllables. When her father demanded a declaration of her feelings, her response was brief.
Nothing.
Yet as
the play reveals, the substance of love lives more in faces and action than in wind.
1. Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
