Love

What is love? 

We know, and yet, we don’t know what it is. 

It has been talked about and written about since the beginning of time. Everyone’s idea or definition is as different as fingerprints. 

It can’t be measured or weighed but it is talked about in various amounts. 

It can’t be seen or tasted, only the results of it are known.

You can’t touch it; however you’ll feel its presence when it’s around you.

Where it comes from and how do we get it can be debated until the end of time. 

Never the less, I think we’ll agree that love is something we all need, want, and would like to have a lot more of. 

So, I wish for you an abundance of it, whatever love means to you.

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Born in Durham County, North Carolina, Elaine Jones is an Army spouse, Army mother and Army & Marine Corps grandmother who enjoyed careers in nursing and education before retiring.  

Her first career was as a neonatal nurse at Duke University Hospital. She left the nursing profession and became an Army spouse, raising a family and supporting her husband’s military career.  She later became interested in education and served as a teacher’s aide, then as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructor for Alamance Community College. 

Active in community service, Elaine has organized efforts to build mobility aids for the disabled, and volunteered to help local hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and community centers. She loves to bring smiles to the faces of hospital patients, children and assisted living residents portraying her alter ego, a clown named “Miss Dipity Dolittle.”

Elaine enjoys writing and published Granny’s Legacy: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems as well as featured articles and poems in Good Old Day’s Magazine, The Havok Journal and The Epoch Times, Battlefields. 

Elaine’s hobbies include writing, reading, painting and crocheting. She donates some of her crocheted items to support local charities including Ricky’s Retreat, a safe spot for struggling young adults and teens. 

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