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.
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…