Things Elemental » Valentine’s Day http://thingselemental.com Kathryn Pritchett Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:14:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Happy Valentine’s Day! http://thingselemental.com/2017/02/happy-valentines-day/ http://thingselemental.com/2017/02/happy-valentines-day/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:43:28 +0000 kathryn http://thingselemental.com/?p=5643

Happy Valentine’s Day!  Hope you’re spending it with people you love doing things you love. MJ has a teaching commitment tonight so I made Valentine cookies for him to share with his students and we frosted them together after enjoying a pre-Valentine’s dinner out.  Note that I spread the frosting to the edges.  He tried to leave a neat little border of unfrosted cookie.  Probably tells you something about each of us.  But even more telling is that we both frosted the cookies in our own preferred way and didn’t care a bit if the other frosted their cookies differently.  That’s a good thing about having been married for thirty-seven years.  We can see each others’ differences and (mostly) not let them totally bug us!

If you’re busy frosting cookies or doing something else that is amenable to podcast listening you might enjoy Krista Tippett’s interview with philosopher and writer Alain de Botton about love and relationships. This is on the heels of him having written the most downloaded essay in the New York Time’s last year about Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person.  Grateful I ended up with the person who’s wrong for me in all the right ways.

]]> http://thingselemental.com/2017/02/happy-valentines-day/feed/ 1 Friday Things: The Valentine’s Day 2015 Edition http://thingselemental.com/2015/02/friday-things-the-valentines-day-2015-edition/ http://thingselemental.com/2015/02/friday-things-the-valentines-day-2015-edition/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:58:46 +0000 kathryn http://thingselemental.com/?p=4527

Happy Friday the 13th/Valentine’s Day/President’s Day weekend everyone!  Wow, that’s quite the mashup.  Not sure what image would really capture that — chocolate covered scorpions wielding teeny-tiny American flags? I’ll stick with sparkly sugar cookie hearts and share some other sweet things to savor when you get a moment.

The romance of a pink sofa.

If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend.

Heart Art.

Why you shouldn’t go out to eat on Valentine’s Day.

Instead, make bittersweet brownies with cranberries.

Senator Alan Simpson and his wife Ann save a relationship and share tips from their marriage (really good stuff.)

And a sweet little love song by Natalie Prass.

Happy Weekend All!

 

 

]]> http://thingselemental.com/2015/02/friday-things-the-valentines-day-2015-edition/feed/ 0 Friday Things Considered: The Valentine’s Day Edition http://thingselemental.com/2014/02/3040/ http://thingselemental.com/2014/02/3040/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:41:29 +0000 kathryn http://thingselemental.com/?p=3040 Happy Valentine’s Day!   A few weeks ago I was stuck on a muddy road outside Tarma, Peru waiting over an hour for construction to clear. Was I frustrated? Of course. But after awhile I stopped fussing about getting to our destination and started focusing on the  unexpected beauty around me.  I saw a good deal to love–including these “I ♥ Tarma” signs everywhere.  Stuck in the mud on my way somewhere else, I began to ♥ Tarma myself.

Here are a few lovely things I came across this week:

Love lessons from 100 happy couples.

The myth of Prince Charming.

Hot matchstick art.

Sweetheart pinchusions.

Valentine’s table centerpiece.

Pink Cake!

XOXOXO

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