Singles Awareness Day!

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
(William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5)

*photo pulled from the sweeping, romantic film "The Painted Veil". A tale of a broken marriage and the journey between two people. It is the third cinematic adaptation of the book by the same name (author: W. Somerset Maugham). It was released in 2006 and stars Naomi Watts and Edward Norton. I saw it on a plane ride to London, back in summer 2007. Obviously, it stuck with me.
To find out more, read this review of the film HERE.

---Good morning! Here's a lil history on the 2/14 date!

The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
Wikipedia.
Now, on to other "news"...

---It's a quarter till 10am, the kids are dropped off at school, it is STILL snowing outside and I just finished reading the NY Times, online.I burst into belly laughs after reading the OP section, in particular...this OP ART piece.
Here is the excerpt:

The Sweet Smell of Semantics
A dark rose, for instance, symbolized bashful shame; a foxglove, deceit. But the rules of love have shifted, and our floriography needs modernizing as well. Jason Logan illustrates some updated meanings for the flowers you’ll be sending (or receiving) on Valentine’s Day. The Symbol of Love Jason Logan, an illustrator, is the author of “If We Ever Break Up, This Is My Book.”

Here are the images:


NYTIMES LINK