Many, many years ago, an early Christian saint named Valentinus was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry as well as ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. During his imprisonment, he is said to have healed the daughter of his
jailer. Legend states that before his execution he wrote "from
your Valentine" as a farewell to her. Today, Saint Valentine's Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion as well as in the Lutheran Church.
(thank you Wikipedia)
Since Valentinus was behind bars in a dank, dark dungeon, perhaps he bribed a guard to run to the nearest Walgreens to purchase a box of Russel Stover chocolates for the now healed girl. As the story goes, Valentinus healed the daughter. Nothing is mentioned about his falling in love with her....
There is nothing wrong with fantasizing happy endings, however, so I'll continue to associate Valentine Day with little heart candies that say 'puppy love' and romantic candlelit dinners and dozens of red roses and.....
Since Valentine Day is a time to exchange tokens of affection I made
some tokens from my stash of ephemera to send to a few special women in
my life.
Sweetheart Glynn's wall hanging valentine:
And the first Valentine I made for Glynn 34 years ago, a bit faded with age:
In closing, I'll leave you with a special Valentine poem written by blogger, Karen at theartofdoingstuff.com. I wholeheartedly relate to this love poem, unfortunately. It's titled, 'Carbs, a love poem':
Amen!
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