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A Valentine
14 February 2024
Tucked in the corners of drawers, saved beyond the occasion, reminders of what matters, the old Valentines from Dad to Mom and Mom to Dad now come to light again as we clean out the house.
They are lessons in love. How to do it. Decade after decade.
It is an unexplained wonder how anyone does it.
We sit through weddings, listening to the vows, the for-better and for-worse, knowing they little of either yet, and remember all the couples cleaved by the for-worse before ever realizing it was the doorway to the for-better.
How you do it is: you do it.
Whispering
a sweet voice says to me:
"You understand what life is all about
if you take it as it comes."Those words of Senzio Mazza, a Sicilian poet, might be a love poem set in florid type inside a Valentine card.
But the poem is not about the for-better in love or life. It is about how you do it when for-worse arrives.
You take it as it comes when you love someone.