A Privilege

Valentine's Day is tomorrow, and aside from all the cynical commercialism that day has become filled with, aside from all the maudlin romances film and tv and dime novels (even when dressed up as literature) inundate the world with, it is time to reiterate something all too often forgotten.

It is a privilege to know love, to share and live love, to love and be loved. And I am endlessly thankful that I enjoy that privilege, the privilege of real true love.

So, Happy Valentine's Day, my dear Detlef. You are my love as I am yours. Loving and being loved by you is my greatest privilege!

May all the rest of you have the luck to be so privileged as I am!