Here at Celebrations we're about celebrating all of life's occasions. Now, you can find our celebratory spirit offline too, in our fabulous book series! These books celebrate all of the people and things that give us cause to celebrate – friends, family, and love! The best part is that these books are culled from our user sumbitted content. So order one here or pick one up at your local book store and flip through our fun, heart-warming, and occasionally tear-jerking stories to be inspired to celebrate. Want to see your celebrations stories in print? Stay tuned for our next call for content.
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By Jim McCann, Founder Celebrations
The second in a series, all content in Celebrating Love: Share, Remember, Cherish was contributed by customers and visitors of 1-800-FLOWERS.com
Perfectly imperfect is all one ever needs to be worthy of love.
The world may take you
beautiful places but love is the only way to travel.
Love me when I least deserve it, because that?s when I really need it.
Introduction
During good times or challenging times, having the love of friends and family is a powerful advantage in life and business. I know this firsthand because ours is a family-run business and the contributions from my siblings and extended family have not only helped our business succeed, they?ve also helped keep me sane (mostly!). I was thinking about these relationships not too long ago after our annual McCann family weekend at our beach house on Long Island. My wife, Marylou, and I were sitting in our favorite lounge chairs drinking a glass of wine and watching a magnificent golden sunset slip over the bay. Our children and their families had just packed up and left. For the first time in five years, they were all living close by in the New York area, and all were healthy, happy, and doing well. As for the two of us, we were celebrating 37 years of marriage. Marveling at how blessed we were, it suddenly hit us: At this moment, this one moment, our life felt just about perfect.