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Contents
- A Thoughtful Essay on Valentine’s Day, of Which the Profound Underlying Message Is: Buy Our Valentines at $2.25 each, $20 for 10
- Music Heals! Listen to Feelgood Music Free, Whenever You Like, Including Movie and TV Themes, Including the Great Westerns of the Late 1950s and the song from The Rockford Files (and all the other Mike Post themes we could find); Dozens of New Meditation Videos Too
- Unfamiliar Territory: Buy this Beautiful Book of Prayers, Household Hints, Poems, and Miscellany, and Get Carry Me to This Enchanted Shore (a Morning Prayer) Free!
- Subscribe to Our Blogs — No Skin Off YOUR Back, Since We Often Forget to Write Them, or, When We Write Them, We Forget to Post Them, but When We DO Write Them AND Post Them, They Are Truly Brilliant and Entertaining
- And a Final Word, of Which the Profound Underlying Message Is: Buy Our Stuff *
Ignore all the arty magazine articles about How to Make Your Own Valentines; buy ours instead
Valentine’s Day can be a stressful time… even a cruel time. We know this from first-hand experience. (We have always wondered if there is such a thing as second-hand experience.)
"What I Love About You"
When we were in elementary school, we decorated shoe boxes to serve as Valentine “mailboxes,” and then, at the designated time, we “delivered” the Valentine cards.
Children's Valentines
This was in that long-long-ago, unenlightened era when adults believed that if a child’s feelings were hurt, the child might survive and even learn something from the experience that caused the hurt feelings. So we were not required to give a Valentine card to every child. If we didn’t like Helga, we could walk right past her stupid shoe box without even a twinge of remorse. We could even flip Helga off if we wanted to, as long as the teacher didn’t see us.
"Happy Dance"
Of course, if Chip gave a card to Hailey but not to us, as usually happened, we didn’t see how we could possibly make it through the day, or the rest of our life. But, as you can see, we have forgotten all about it, and we barely remember Hailey, who was BLOND and PRETTY and who could do CARTWHEELS in gym class whereas WE, lacking upper-body strength, consistently landed on our CHIN, and whose (Hailey’s) mother and grandmother sewed her BEAUTIFUL calico dresses and let her wear more petticoats than OUR mother let US wear, PLUS, WE wanted to be the smallest child in the class because that seemed to be the only way we could distinguish ourself, but on School Nurse Measures Your Height and Weight and Bleats the Numbers Across the Classroom to Your Teacher Day at school, it ALWAYS turned out that HAILEY was even TINIER than we were and made us feel like a PACK HORSE.
"Cherry Conditioner"
But we learned a valuable lesson from this experience. We learned that it was possible to bludgeon Hailey with a baseball bat at recess and make it look like an accident.
"Snail"
Back to Valentines: If we were a child in today’s wussy politically correct environment, we would deposit a Valentine card in every child’s mailbox but we would give MONEY to the kids we really liked, maybe a crisp $100 bill, and THEN we’d see who Chip gave a Valentine card to….
Valentine's for girls to give (Boys could give them too, of course, but all the boys WE know would refuse, absolutely REFUSE to give away Valentines featuring little boys wearing sailor suits or playing ring-around-the-rosie)
We are only joking, of course, except about the cartwheels and the baseball bat, but we really do love Valentine’s Day. We are grateful for anything, in a world that can seem cynical — in a world in which one cannot say often enough ”I Love You” or “I Like You” or “Be My Valentine” (whatever THAT means) — for days such as Valentine’s Day that remind us to show affection to and appreciation for the people in our lives. And we are perfectly serious. We Love You, Mom and Dad
P.S. We made a silly mistake on our Valentine web page, which we hope and believe has been fixed. We were offering the $20 ten-pack for Valentine cards such as “To the Love of My Life.” Of course, if you WANT ten such cards, we will give you the $20 bargain, but we must warn you, you’re playing a dangerous game….
Wishing the World a Happy Valentine's Day!
Music Heals! Listen to OUR Feelgood Music or Watch the Videos, Vote for Your Own
OUR Feelgood Music includes “LaBamba” (Ritchie Valens), “Down in the River to Pray” (Hayley Westenra), “Orinoco Flow” (Enya)… a banjo free-for-all featuring Steve Martin, Béla Fleck, and Tony Trischka… Alison Krauss on the fiddle… Patti LaBelle’s “soul” version of “ABC” on Sesame Street… “Jump” by Van Halen… “Jump (for My Love” by the Pointer Sisters… and a whole lot more: hours of our favorite movie and TV theme music, including tributes to Elmer Bernstein (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird) and other great film composers.
Béla Fleck
We suggest, especially for the television-show themes, that you gather your friends and play “Guess the TV Show” (you’ll have to look away from the monitor, of course); but then, our idea of a fun evening is playing “Go to the Head of the Class” with our grandchildren.
You’ll find all this music on the Annagrammatica website, along with dozens of videos on meditation.
If you want us to add YOUR Feelgood Music, fill out the little survey. We’ll include it in our collection unless it makes US feel AWFUL.
When you take the quickie survey, we won’t place any “tracking cookies” on your computer. We’re not sure what they are, and if we were, we wouldn’t know how. We don’t even ask for your last name. You don’t even have to give us your REAL first name. You can call yourself “Sven,” unless your name IS “Sven,” in which case you could use “Raquel.” We don’t care. We just want to know what music lights you up.
Unfamiliar Territory: A Bargain at Any Price
"The Summer of Going Barefoot"
For a limited time, you’ll receive Carry Me to This Enchanted Shore (A Morning Prayer) FREE when you buy Unfamiliar Territory. But we should not have to bribe you this way. Unfamiliar Territory is a beautiful full-color book that is CHOCK (?) FULL of whimsy, wisdom, and pretty pictures. Buy one for yourself, one for your spouse, one for each of your children, especially if you have a large family, and one as a gift for someone who brings YOU an unexpected gift. (“Oh, thank you. And I’m so glad you stopped by! I have a gift I’ve been meaning to bring over….”)
We here in the Printing Division of Annagrammatica.com tried producing Unfamiliar Territory on our own pathetic printer using 100-percent recycled paper, and the results were less than satisfactory unless you were our mother. So, at the moment, we are using the services of Lulu.com, and the product is beautiful but the paper is not recycled, and so, until Lulu.com gets with it, we are looking for another book producer.
from Unfamiliar Territory
from Unfamiliar Territory
from Carry Me to This Enchanted Shore (A Morning Prayer)
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