Healthy Mama Magazine SPECIAL RED Edition - Feb 2015 | Page 69

! iss ue in ev er y a little moment of enlightenment Diana Vreeland said “Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.” The first person to create and sell a Valentines Day card in the United States was Esther Howland in 1844. Fifteen years after her first card she was earning over $100,000 a year. In the Hindu and Buddhist traditions rose is one of the colors of the fourth primary energy center, the heart chakra, Anahata. The other color is green. Teachers get more Valentine’s Day cards than mothers, wives and sweethearts! HEALTHY MAMA MAGAZINE 69