Well. . .now that all of that is all over
I spent Valentine's Day playing frisbee golf, frisbee, and Risk. No smells of warm breath as someone drifts their pink lips up from your chin to a place where they seem to fit like the pieces of soft and slick jigasaw puzzle. Instead a dozen soon-bloom roses, made of Hershey Kisses and a thin sharp piece of metal wrapped in sticky green paper, and a glass that says "Love Bug". I dove through a bush, slid in the mud, and ran around like an idiot and the only thing that went into my pants was the long thoughtful branch of a bramble bush. Opal and I sat in palaver as the yesterday that was drifted into the today that is. We made beautiful music together, a new song named after the glass that Liz gave me on Valentine's Day. Did you know that the day started in ancient Rome as a pagan festival for fertility? Did you know that people in the Middle Ages believed that February 14th was the day that birds chose their mates for the breeding season? I found both of these things out yesterday from the good people at Folk Alley. I find the latter to be oddly pleasing and delightful.
I have this irrational disdain for Valentine's day. It is irrational because the last two have been amazingly lovely days full of their own kinds of romance. Whether it is lying lazily in the sheets watching foreign films and drinking cans of pineapple juice or running madly trying to catch errant frisbee throws with an eclectic group of friends, I've found the February 14th to be something of a holiday, but then again I thought Feb 13th was a pretty decent holiday as well. . .and today is shaping up to be that way. And tomorrow, well we'll surely find some love in that too.
I have this irrational disdain for Valentine's day. It is irrational because the last two have been amazingly lovely days full of their own kinds of romance. Whether it is lying lazily in the sheets watching foreign films and drinking cans of pineapple juice or running madly trying to catch errant frisbee throws with an eclectic group of friends, I've found the February 14th to be something of a holiday, but then again I thought Feb 13th was a pretty decent holiday as well. . .and today is shaping up to be that way. And tomorrow, well we'll surely find some love in that too.