Entry #6 Love and Be Loved

Love and be Loved

   My motto for life "Love and be Loved" a motto I hope will be the a stepping stone for a strong foundation for a business that will do exactly that  "Love and be Loved". I know people might be thinking how might one create such a foundation? 

   In the early 1900's a doctor gave my great grandfather a year to live, so he picked up his wife and ten kids and had his sights on Florida. My great-grandfather settled in Bartow, FL where he then began to construct the family mansion. He not only built a mansion he created a wonder, the house became known as the Wonder House because all who drove or walked past always wondered what it was going to look like when he complicated this mansion. The Wonder House took him more than twenty years to complete, needless to say he  lived well past a year the doctors gaven him. 

   The materials that my great-grandfather used to construct his mansion was thousands of pounds of cement, the rocks of  the foundation of the land,  rocks from all over the world, to crate its mosaic designs throughout the mansion. He was genius when crafting his art, he had a cross ventilation, as well as water ways through the house so during hot days the house had its own cooling system, He never had to water the plants because the house did it automatically through. its water system. The doors were hand crafted, and every room had its own balcony. He also built a system of mirrors, that if any one was in the bathroom and someone was knocking on the front door he could see who was knocking. In "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" magazine they called it the "house of a thousand wonders".   I believe his most interesting addition to the house was a series of mirrors and prisms through the chimney that reflected rainbows all over the room he called the rainbow room. But unfortunately he was told he needed to fill the chimney with cement, this was at a time when people were worried  about German spies and my great grandfather was German, The people at that time thought my great-grandfather was somehow sending secrete messages through this house, and forced him to fill in the chimney.
     The Wonder House still stands today and the foundation is just as strong as it was then as it is today. So If I can build such a foundation, like my great-grandfather, in 1925, through hard work and a creative mind, I too can build a wonder myself. It just takes an idea, an idea with a foundation that stands  firm on Love and Be Loved.