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Janet Parachin is a yoga therapist, meditation teacher, Ayurveda wellness consultant, Reiki Master Teacher, and enthusiastic Yoga trainer and practitioner. She teaches at Tulsa Yoga Meditation Center www.tulsayogameditationcenter.com/ Study yoga, meditation and Ayurveda with her in the online classroom Yoga Spirit Online www.yogaspiritonline.com/

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2/13/2023 0 Comments

Love and Cannoli

We were talking about love and cannoli this past weekend at yoga school. They fit together nicely, don’t you think? And it made for an interesting discussion of what we love, why we love, and how love really is the thing that makes the world go ‘round.

I grew up in Chicago and during the 1970s my family moved into a suburb that had strong Italian-American heritage. Not being Italian myself, I was fascinated by the culture and the cooking. I fell in love with cannoli, so different from any other dessert I had ever had. The women who cooked in the local restaurants and markets made the best Italian food and, of course, the best cannoli.

Several others in class had stories to tell of eating cannoli in Italian neighborhoods in other cities. The longing for a delicious cannoli set in but with no way to be transported back in time or to a location where we could have something that we love.

This thing called “love” is interesting to consider. Valentine’s Day may be overly focused on romantic love, but love in all its forms truly is a beautiful thing in our world.

Love shows up in many other ways beyond romance—the love we have for companion animals and Nature, loving the work we get to do whether its vocational or avocational, loving music or art or the written word, and definitely loving food like an amazing cannoli.

Here’s the thing about love that gets me every time: Love can never be diminished. You can give love to all of those things I listed—and more!—and you will never, ever have less love to give. In fact, love actually increases the more it is shared. Hey, you can’t say that about a cannoli; if I have two cannoli and I give one to you, well that only leaves one for me. But maybe we can sit outside on this beautiful day and eat the cannoli together, celebrating the love that multiplies and never fades away.

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