The day after Valentine's Day is still a day for love...

"Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky..." -- Hafez

I have never been a Valentine’s Day sort of gal. I don’t eat candy, have a nervous fear of the sort of waste wrapping paper causes (it is not recyclable- eek!), I would rather prepare my own food than get taken out to eat, and I would much rather leave flowers in the ground and watch them grow.

So…that leaves me with celebrating love. Which I will always support if it is done in a healthy way. And the way that I have celebrated love even when I had no “Valentines” day partner…is to indulge in poetry.

By the way, if you love you some flowers and candy and cupids, by all means celebrate away if that is your jam.

So today, I want to share with you a poem that resonates deep within my heart. Especially when I forget that love in a verb, that love in unconditional, that love is all around me… and that I am lovable no matter what. It is a poem my husband and I recite to each other often and a poem that, today, in the spirit of radical self-love and acceptance, I invite you to recite to your…