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effexI'm not much one for Valentine's - I'm usually single for it, it's over-commercialized, blahdiddy blah blah. It's a good day for feeling lonely.
But last night I read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuki_onna's Valentine's post and it made me think.
In the midst of winter, we are encouraged to come together and have sex (let's not be coy.) To escape the snow and ice in each others' bodies. The colors are red and rose and white--the colors of fire in the winter, of blood, of flesh, survival even in the barren times. We exchange hearts, the very vital core of our bodies. It is the last holiday before spring, to remind us that the fertile world will come again, with flowers and sweetness and love. Even surrounded by death, by blood on the snow, be it St. Valentine's blood or your own, life will win out. The traditional food is chocolate--which can be preserved through the winter and does not rot, full of sugar and fat which keep our bodies going through lean times. This holiday is as old as time: o world, even in the freezing storm, come together, make love, make children, feast, smile, and know the sun is coming soon.
Also, Valentine's Day was apparently invented by Chaucer. How cool is that?
It's also the Chinese/Lunar New Year - We've officially entered the Year of the Tiger.dhobikikutti has a party running, it's pretty fantastic.
Anddeepad tells us of a bomb blast in Pune and points us towards spykeraven, whose family lives there (they're thankfully okay). She asks:
Please, for me. Do one good deed today. Help a stranger across the road, put trash in a bin, buy a rose and leave it on a co-worker's desk. Small charms that woven together can lead to something greater. Pray for peace and understanding between our different selves.
Because if anyone I loved had been hurt, I might be asking something entirely different.
So. I don't have much romance in my life but I do have love - love for family, for friends, for the occasional stranger on the bus, at the club, or on the screen. And I'm loved in return. Why not celebrate that today? Why not share it around, mark this moment as a time for growth and change? It's a better day for it then most.
But last night I read
yuki_onna's Valentine's post and it made me think.In the midst of winter, we are encouraged to come together and have sex (let's not be coy.) To escape the snow and ice in each others' bodies. The colors are red and rose and white--the colors of fire in the winter, of blood, of flesh, survival even in the barren times. We exchange hearts, the very vital core of our bodies. It is the last holiday before spring, to remind us that the fertile world will come again, with flowers and sweetness and love. Even surrounded by death, by blood on the snow, be it St. Valentine's blood or your own, life will win out. The traditional food is chocolate--which can be preserved through the winter and does not rot, full of sugar and fat which keep our bodies going through lean times. This holiday is as old as time: o world, even in the freezing storm, come together, make love, make children, feast, smile, and know the sun is coming soon.
Also, Valentine's Day was apparently invented by Chaucer. How cool is that?
It's also the Chinese/Lunar New Year - We've officially entered the Year of the Tiger.
dhobikikutti has a party running, it's pretty fantastic.And
deepad tells us of a bomb blast in Pune and points us towards spykeraven, whose family lives there (they're thankfully okay). She asks:Please, for me. Do one good deed today. Help a stranger across the road, put trash in a bin, buy a rose and leave it on a co-worker's desk. Small charms that woven together can lead to something greater. Pray for peace and understanding between our different selves.
Because if anyone I loved had been hurt, I might be asking something entirely different.
So. I don't have much romance in my life but I do have love - love for family, for friends, for the occasional stranger on the bus, at the club, or on the screen. And I'm loved in return. Why not celebrate that today? Why not share it around, mark this moment as a time for growth and change? It's a better day for it then most.
