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A Little Something for Valentine’s Day
I hope you are all well and able to spend time with the ones you love, today and every day.
Illustration by my son Nathan
Always with the Russians, tangling things.
My wife accepts the wild tangles of my heart and loves me anyway. Sent her flowers at work for the first time in 15 years (because she has not worked at a “real” job in that time). Felt good to be able to do.
Very nice! Thanks!
I have to log off in a few minutes and go downstairs to start on the Lobster Newburg I’m cooking for my girls: wife, mom, three daughters. Happy V-Day to you and your family!
Wonderful, Marijane, just plain wonderful.
Kent
Thanks so much, Merrijane. :)
There’s a lot of talent in your family Merrijane; great poem and illustration.
How lovely and loved the drawing – talented family!
Wild and tangled – Love it!
Very touching, and a perfect illustration.
observe how bare branches
of Russian olive trees
are as wild and tangled
as anyone’s heart.
Powerful and poignant. Which came first – your son’s affecting painting or your words that twine among its searching branches?
The picture was sketched a long time ago, but the poem was inspired by an actual walk in February. I was searching through his works for an appropriate illustration and found this—though I did have to colorize it in photoshop.