There are very few memories I have of holidays that stand out in any one year. Though there are days and times that the memory brings forward quickly enough each year for each year it stores. "Oh Yeah!" one might say, thats the year of some other event they considered to be a major influence in one way or another.
Valentines Day memories, for those who have marked the holiday as some sort of year cursor, are as varied as any other from individual perceptions. For some it marks the years of a love won, and for others of love lost. It divides the two perspectives like the Christmas Want/Need knife that marks the influences of the season.
This supposed season of "love" draws memories from the well as random as the sands of the sea. Some years having a stuffed full box of valentines and other times not drawing even a few. A holiday, like all the others, remembered and celebrated for a few short hours.
This holiday I hope we mark a new record. A record of a time, when we can draw for all of the generosity of one season (Christmas) and Camaraderie of another (Thanksgiving) combined with the hope of yet more (Easter, Quanza, All Saints Day) and share freely the simple acceptance of a cheap Valentine card, with the open heart of a kindergardener spirit.
You can dear reader count me as one of your valentines; every other day I count you sacredly as mine. ;)
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