Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. I will not tell you what my "heart" thinks of it, I'll merely describe my actions in the physical world. A couple of days ago, I went to the card shop and bought a shitload of Valentine cards - about $100 bucks worth. I've sent them to numerous valued ladies (perhaps sometime I'll do an essay about the myriad varieties and dimensions of relationship experiences) and also, under Amy's & my name, to numerous ladies we deal with professionally, e.g., court personnel, etc. (And there's also some delightful overlap there.) So, here is the connundrum - why did I do this? Crass commercialism? Silly sentimentality? Genuine feelings of love for these people and/or for humanity in general? (At least the female half of humanity - our Magistrate Court system has 7 ladies and 1 man, and I put a postscript on their card that I'll call him "Your Honor" and all that, but I sure as hell won't send him a Valentine.)
Assume for the purposes of this question that I know my own motivations, but either am not telling or, if I were to tell might not tell the truth. What ARE my motivations? Is that even knowable by me? Or by you, or by anyone? For some reason, asking this question amuses me a great deal. I think one Shelfer knows why.
We went to a no-kidding Bible study tonight. Rather a strange experience, considering my practices approximately since birth. The question of the alleged divine inspiration of Paul's writings came up, Pastor Josh answered in a forthright manner, and I'm still quite confused. It would be nice to get at least the basic structure of this new-found spiritual system (assuming again for the sake of argument that it's genuine and not a ruse, and I likewise cannot prove that, and probably wouldn't bother to if I could), and the details can then have places to live. A fundamental question is in my mind that I've mentioned before, the need I seem to have to coordinate Sagan and Christ. A recent statistical study estimated that there are 70 sextillion stars in the observable Universe. Is all but old Sol just window dressing for our one species?
My mother is having to adjust to the reality of permanently impaired health, and that is quite worrying.
Pippa passes.
R
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Even though I don't like the Valentine's Day holiday myself, I'm sure everyone you got a card for will consider themselves lucky to receive it.
This country IMHO does not celebrate enough and so it needs reasons to celebrate and Valentines Day is just one more reason to do so. I am not sure there really are bad reasons to celebrate, so even if one does not take Valentines Day serious (like taking Christmas seriously) one should still celebrate Valentines Day if for no other reasons than the sake of celebrating. It's good for people to do so and it works for me. Party on Garth.
Death to Cupid!
i am always game for something to celebrate. i had a lovely valentines day. hoping you did too.
It's really quite simple, one who doesn't like Valentines Day like Ms. Rag should have a Death to Cupid party. We live in dark, conservative times where people look for excuses not to interact (and have fun! and are bent on cocooning by themselves--it's so much safer to do so. Safe often wins over happiness and the risks invovled with it.
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