Validation

Wow! What would our world look like if this wasn't just a fable?

human-ness

"I love you" means something very special and very concrete. It means that I surround you with the feeling that allows you-perhaps requires you-to be everything you really are as a human being at that moment. When my love is fullest, you are most fully you. You may be good, or bad, or both; tender or angry, or both; but you are you, which is the very most I could ever ask or expect. And so I experience you in all your beauty and all your ugliness. But you, not what I expect, or want, or what you feel you should be, or were fashioned to be, but really you.

Thomas Malone & Patrick Malone, Art of Intimacy

Valentine's Day Poem

i loved him
and
he broke my heart

i loved her
and
she threw it in my face

i loved them both
and
with no regret

for i believe God
and
love, he calls us to it

but like the man
in
Moulin Rouge

the greatest thing is to love
and
to be loved in return

God loves me
and
i choose to love him in return.