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In Love & Peace

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REMEMBER

Pre-scheduled: Automatically published on 11/11/11 at 11:11 AM.

You know that I know that WE both know. Love Defined

Buon Giorno Principessa!

My belief is that real love comes around only once in a persons life. You know what kind of love I'm talking about. The one that has the intensity to take your breath away. A profound surge of emotion, the storm when you least expect it. It turns life upside down and you find yourself doing things for the other person that you've never done before. It's almost as if you can move mountains, or at least summit one. Any love arriving afterwards can be felt as 'deep feelings' but it never truly measures up to that deep passionate sense of the heart that true love brought you. In all honesty, you can't compare the two because they are at opposite ends of the spectrum of love. This 'true love' that I'm talking about is a love that is endless and knows no bounds, can persevere and toils through the thickness of life's cruel tricks. It endures everything in it's path, never relinquishes and holds on until the last breath. The thought of impending death does not cause it to waiver and death does not destroy it. It lives. I'm talking about a love that has more depth and breadth ever imaginable, one that touches the deepest part of the soul, a love that makes the spirit scale and soar to points others only dream of. It challenges us. It defines who we are. Love always prevails as it dances to the end. And even in the end this love continues dancing for all eternity. It lives in your soul, in the warmth of the hotel of your heart.

Forever and for always.

"Amor aeternus"

You know. I know. We both know.

MARIO FRANGOULIS BUONGIORNO PRINCIPESSA

Special Note

Amor Aeternus , a musical work by Nicholas Lens.

The Italian

Se canterai
Nella notte che non passa mai
Ti bacero
Sono belle le labbra che ridono

Se piovera
Con la pioggia anche il grano verra
Ti trovero
Ripescando la felicita.
Guarda lassu
La luna e tutta bianca e il cielo e tutto blu
E se anche tu ci sarai
Sara facile tutto vedrai
Ce la faro
Con la forza che ti rubero

E torneremo
A camminare per la via
E ogni stagione riavra la sua poesia.

Se finira
Questa notte di bassa marea
Andremo via
Ripescando la felicita.

Felicita
Andremo via

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In English

Good Morning Princess

If you sing
In the night that never ends
I will kiss you
Those lips look beautiful when they're smiling

If it rains
Along with the rain, the wheat will also come
I will find you
Rediscovering happiness

Look up there
The moon is so white and the sky is so blue
And if you want to be there too
Everything will be easy, you'll see
I will make it happen
with the strength I'll steal from you

And we will return
To walk this path of life
And every season will have poetry once more

If it ends
This night of low tides
We will go away
Rediscovering happiness

Happiness
We will go away

Heavy Heart, Sad Times.

We are at a loss for words tonight as news comes out of Haiti with the increasing number of deaths. In the photo above, Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean is overcome with emotion while speaking about the crisis in Haiti following Tuesday's earthquake. (Ottawa January 13, 2010.) Jean is Haitian-born. The death toll in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake could run to tens of thousands, Haiti's President Jean Preval said.

The first Canadian confirmed dead is Yvonne Martin, a nurse from Elmira, ON. which is 20 minutes away from here. So close to home, we feel the impact and our hearts and prayers go out to her family. She was killed 90 minutes after arriving. Yvonne was to begin work with a mission group using her nursing skills to help the poor.

On a personal note, our family has been desperately trying to contact our cousin and nephew. Father Joseph Durante has been in Haiti for 25+ years as a director of a medical clinic, an educator and as a spiritual director to mission groups. We've not heard anything from him and all attempts have been futile. It's a dreadful feeling not knowing, not hearing. We wait.

"While on a medical mission in 2000, priests from the St. Charles Seminary in Haiti, which is located approximately 3 miles from the L’Ouverture Cleary School, donated land to Haiti Medical Missions of Memphis and constructed a permanent medical clinic on the seminary grounds. The clinic became operational in late fall of 2001. Father Joseph Durante who lives at the St. Charles Seminary complex provides spiritual leadership for our teams while they are in Haiti, and helps direct the day-to-day activities of the clinic." Read more HERE.

Photograph by: REUTERS/Blair Gable