So did I…

Until I went on 11-day Panama Cruise on-board Island Princess, November 26 – December 7, 2014

This sailing has been a wonderful journey, an experience of total delight. To my big surprise, I found that being on a gluten-free diet does not have to be a punishment, but a pure joy.

The Bordeaux dining room staff, specially Paul, the head-waiter, and Rui, the Maitre’d made an enormous effort. They went out of their way to create gourmet dishes with exotic presentation and tastes that made dining a joy.

I am compelled to show the world the photos of the dishes that they served me. You can taste them. Just watch… See How Restrictive Diet Can Be Transformed Into a Delightful Gourmet Foods

Useful Information About Gluten-Free Eating Before Your Cruise

Gluten-Free Cruising

Listen to Elina’s Acceptance Speech After Receiving Premier’s Award for Health Sciences, Canadore College, 2013

Elina Katsman

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

—Walt Whitman
From Song of Myself

I often think what power makes romantics? What compels us to withstand this tenderness of pleasure and pain? I suppose each one has a very unique story to tell. Whatever it is, enjoy it!

Happy Valentine Day to All the Lovers! May this day be repeated every day in your heart. May you wake up each day intoxicated with love & romance.

Samahria Ramsen

Romance on Fire is a special collection of fifty five poems, composed between the years of 1990 and 2014.  Spiritual in nature, these poems are concepts of philosophy, blended with the loving intuition of the heart. Each composition is a particular expression of love. Love ignited, puts romance on fire. It rushes us to the high winds of experience. We sail through time with the wind power of romance; we meet cyclones, typhoons and tsunamis of life; we encounter the anguish of perceived separation only to find that there is a sanctuary, the holy of hollies, the union with the lover. Then we reach the orbit, where no external power is needed; where everything is melted and merged into unity of love. Just love.

One-liners to Fuel Your Romance

“All mankind love a lover.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Give all to love; obey thy heart.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” –  Seneca
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.” – Virgil
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.” – Virgil

How can I describe the Man of Romance?

First of all, he is the conjurer of dreams.
His looks arouse without any effort.
He is a great lover.
He gives without expecting anything in return.

 When a great lover loves, he awakens the most beautiful and refined feelings of romance.
The only way I can express these feelings is through poetry, which is the ultimate romance.
Poetry is like a receding horizon of ecstasy and living in euphoria.

 The joy I felt in composing these pieces, I offer to “The Majesty-Romance” itself.
I want to believe that these compositions will fill the hearts of romantics with unquenchable thirst for love.

 I pray to the Lord of Love to fulfill my greatest purpose in life, and bring this purpose to its happiest completion.
I pray to the Lord of Love to open my lover’s heart, ignite romance, and put Romance on Fire.

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