Valentine's Day has never been marked with a big star on my calendar. I enjoy the day, certainly have nothing against they day; I just have never thought very much about it at all. And while I believe it's true that setting aside one day a year to tell those you love that you love them is a bit preposterous, if we relegate signs of affection only to that assigned date, I am rather enjoying this year taking advantage of a cause of celebration and remembrance. Because isn't remembering and taking a moment to be grateful for the love we have experienced in the past and experience even now a way of honoring the fact of love in itself?
With no memory, there is no learning. With no frame of reference from the past, there is no moving forward into something new and uncharted--in that scenario, everything is uncharted. We may have the excitement of anticipation, but we have no richness of the things that have been and the way they have shaped us. I will choose to remember. I will choose to take note and to make a valentine, to celebrate what has come before and blossomed into what is here before me now.
I am excited to take my kids to school on Tuesday and watch them file into their classroom with little paper hearts in hand. They are just growing, just beginning to learn of how to love, and to share that love, and to remember in the form of a love note and say "I love you," "I know you," "I appreciate you."What a beautiful thing to learn and relearn year after year after year.
Happy Valentine's Day.
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