🧵 | Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star - e.e. cummings

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so let's talk about love, big love, little love, old love, new love, and especially, what love can do for us now

Hi, friends,

First, thanks for last week’s Best Books thread. Wow is my TBR pile growing and I am thrilled.

Today, our topic is LOVE, because, well, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. And on Valentine’s Day, what I think of is not fancy dinners out or roses or rings. I think about a classroom filled with kids in footie pajamas and steam from the waffle maker swirling in shafts of sunlight through the giant paned windows. That’s because when I was an elementary teacher, we would celebrate Valentine’s Day in our classroom with a pajama and waffle party. And the students would snake their way through the rows of desks with their big bags of identical valentines (well, not identical because most often these were handmade), placing the cards one at a time on the desk of each classmate. Sometimes they would be sticky with syrup. By the time that disbursement was complete, each of them would again have a big pile of valentines to stuff back into their bags, eventually. But first they would spend t…