"Love"

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my boyfriend"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious . Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationship and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

"Nuggets of Hope"

Hope is the greatest refining influence in human life. It is the "echo of the spirit" in us and, like other echoes, it calls back the voice of our own desires, only in a more delicate, ethereal tone; and each successive echo is higher up and farther away and more spiritual than the last.

- "He begins to die who quits his desires"
- English proverb

- "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish"
- Michelangelo

- "He who wishes to ascend the ladders of the world, will find at the same time the staircase of heaven"
- German proverb

- "Were it not for hope the heart would break"
- Scottish proverb

- "Though hope be a small child she can carry a great anchor"
- English proverb

- "In the kingdom of hope there is no winter"
- Old Russian proverb

- "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life"
- Proverb of Solomon

- "A misty morning does not simply a cloudy day"
- Ancient proverb

"Hope"

All that hopes in the world is directly or indirectly brought about by hope. Not a stroke of work would be done were it not in hopes of some glorious reward. It matters not that it generally paves the way to disappointment. Phoenix - like it rises from its ashes and bids us forget the disappointment of the present in the contemplation of future delights. Hope, then, is the principal antidote which keeps our hearts from bursting under the pressure of evils.

True hope is based on energy of character. A string mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it know the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstances may change the whole course of events.

It is the best to hope only for things possible and probable; he that hopes too much shall deceive himself at last, especially if his industry does not go along with his hopes, for hope without action is a barren undo er.

Hope awakens courage, but despondency is the last of all evils; it is the abandonment of good - the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. When the other emotions are controlled by events, hope remains buoyant and undismayed - unchanged, amidst the most adverse circumstances.

Hopes lives in the future, but dies in the present. Its estate is one of the expectancy. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life, presses forward to imaginary points of bliss, and grasps at impossibilities, and, consequently, very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonor.

"It's all about MUSIC"

Music is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. It adds life to every individual. MUSIC HISTORY Music history is the study of how music has evolved over time. It is somewhat related to the fields of musicology and ethnomusicology.

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Around 50,000 years ago, early modern humans began to disperse from Africa, reaching all the habitable continents. Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music, scientists conclude that music must have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world.

Consequently music must have been in existence for at least 50,000 years and the first music must have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental constituent of human life.

A culture's music is influenced by all other aspects of that culture, including social and economic organization and experience, climate, and access to technology. The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and composers all vary between regions and periods.

PREHISTORY

The origin of music are lost deep in prehistoric times. Probably the earliest forms of music were songs, possibly accented by the clapping of hands. Most likely the first instruments were percussion instruments, maybe a hollow trunk, stones hit together, or other things that are useful to create rhythm, but not always melody. Thirty-thousand-year-old bone flutes have been found in archeological sites; the design seems to be similar to that of the recorder.

EARLY MUSIC
Early music is a general term used to describe music in the European classical tradition from after the fall of the Roman Empire, in 476 CE, until the end of the Baroque era in the middle of the 18 century. Music within this enormous span of time was extremely diverse, encompassing multiple cultural traditions within a wide geographic area; many of the cultural groups out of which medieval Europe developed already had musical traditions, about which little is known. What unified these cultures in the Middle Ages was the Roman Church, and its music served as the focal point for musical development for the first thousand years of this period. Very little non-Christian music from this period survived, due to its suppression by the Church and the absence of music notation; however, folk music of modern Europe probably has roots at least as far back as the Middle Ages.

"Laugh - It's for You"

Go ahead and add laughter to the list of factors that contribute to the healthy lifestyle. Researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center are looking at how a person's mental state and perspective on life affects the functions of the immune system. Specifically, Lee Berk, Dr. P.H., and his colleagues are studying how "a merry heart" (that's happiness/mirthful laughter) can actually bolster the body's ability to prevent and combat illness and diseases.

Intrigued by the awareness that stress and depression can lower the effectiveness of the body's immune system, the researchers wanted to see if the opposite is true - whether positive emotions and attitudes can improve immune system capabilities.

In the study, scientists measured blood stress hormone levels of a group of medical students before, during and after the students watched a humorous video. Results showed that mirthful laughter brings about significant changes in certain components of the endocrine system, believed to be related to the body's ability to fight diseases.

For instance, the students experienced a reduction in their levels of blood cortisol. Cortisol, released during moments of stress (distress), can reduce the circulation of lymphocytes (immune cells) in the bone marrow and interfere with there normal functioning in the immune system.

Researchers also found that mirthful laughter modifies some classical stress hormone levels in ways that may positively influence the immune system.

"Family"

"Family is a picture, treasure it and hold on to it forever!!!"

Family is a basic social group united through broad of kinship or marriage.



Its core form, the nuclear family, consists of a man and woman who live together in a socially recognized marriage with children. The nuclear family is the main unit in many societies. In others, it is a subordinate part of an extended family, which also consists of grandparents and other relatives.





An extended family is more often found in rural than in urban settings and is less common now than several decades ago.






A third family unit that is becoming more prevalent is the single-parent family, in which children live with an unmarried mother or father.




Historical studies have shown that family structure has been less changed by urbanization and industrialization than was once supposed. The nuclear family was the most prevalent pre-industrial unit and is still the basic unit of social organization. The modern family differs from early traditional forms, however, in its functions, compositions, and life cycle and in the roles of husbands and wives.

The only function of the family that continues to survive all change is the provision of affection and emotional support by and to all its members, particularly infants and young children. Specialized institutions now perform many of the other functions that were once performed by the agrarian family: economic production, education, religion, and recreation.
Jobs are usually separate from the family group; family members often work in different occupations and in locations away from the home.

Education is provided by the state or by private groups. Religious training and recreational activities are available outside the home, although both still have a place in family life. The family is still responsible for the socialization of the children. Even in this capacity, however, the influence of peers and of the mass media has assumed a large role.

By the 1970s, the prototypical nuclear family had yielded somewhat to modified structures including the one-parent family, the step family, and the childless family.

One-parent families in the past were usually the result of the death of a spouse. Now, however, must one-parent families are the result of divorce, although a few are created when unmarried mothers bear children. In 1986 more than one out of the four children lived with only-one parent usually the mother. Most one-parent families, however, eventually became two-parent families through marriage. A step family is created by a new marriage of a single parent. It may consist of a parent and children and a childless spouse, a parent and children and a spouse whose children live elsewhere, or to joined one-parent families. In a step family problems in relations between non-natural parents and children may generate tension; the difficulties can be especially great in the marriage of the single parents when the children of both parents live with them as siblings.
Childless families are increasingly the result of deliberate choice. For many years the proportion of couples who were childless declined steadily as venereal and other diseases that cause infertility were conquered. In the 1970s, however, the changes in the status of woman reversed this trend. Couples often elect to have no children or to postpone having them until their careers are well established.

"For You My Friend"

A CUP OF FRIENDSHIP

A Friend is a Treasure A friend is someone we turn to, when our spirits need a lift. A friend is someone we treasure, for our friendship is a gift. A friend is someone who fills our lives, with beauty, joy and grace. And make the world we live in, a better and happier place.

A friend is like a shade tree

Beside a summer way.
A friend is like the sunshine
That makes a perfect day.
A friend is like a flower
That's worn close to the heart.
A friend is like a treasure

With which one will not part.