{"id":12383,"date":"2017-02-14T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12383"},"modified":"2017-02-14T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T11:15:33","slug":"personal-mush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12383","title":{"rendered":"Personal Mush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today, February 14, is one of the most contrived holidays to boost retail sales, especially of jewelry, flowers, candy, and cards. I know this sounds a bit cynical for an old sentimental softie like me. However, I continue to eschew the trappings of corporate greed that leverages a made-up “holiday” to fill the coffers of businesses that are all about profits and little else.<\/p>\n

So my usual practice for this February 14 goes back to what I did in grade school, which is…
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\n…something that my parents taught us. Forget the flowers, candy, and bobbles. Write a hand-written note for the one you love and surprise him (or her) with it.<\/p>\n

So this morning, very very early (even for me), I slipped out of bed and went to my home office. I got out some pink paper and a blue pen, and just wrote from the heart. Not poetry, not much, really. But words from my own heart to the man I love that tell him again just how much he means to me.<\/p>\n

I found a red envelope and tucked my note inside it. I brought it to the kitchen to leave it for him as a surprise.<\/p>\n

Well… turn-about is fair play.<\/p>\n

Sometime in the middle of the night while I was deep in slumber, the Spouse beat me to it. When I entered our kitchen, I found a hand-written note with words from his heart:<\/p>\n

My love for you remains steadfast and strong<\/p>\n

My love for you is deep and long<\/p>\n

I fondly hold you in my dreams and my heart<\/p>\n

Forevermore.<\/p>\n

You are my One and my Only<\/p>\n

My Man, my lover, my bestest friend, and <\/p>\n

My Husband. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"I know that this will not win an award or have the Spouse declared the next Poet Laureate, but nonetheless, these words made me cry happy tears. <\/p>\n

I dwindled in the kitchen there in my stocking feet at 3am deliberating if my words came close to what I was reading. I made a cup of hot cocoa and read\/re-read the note again. After about a half-hour, I decided that first instincts were best, and to leave what I wrote as it was.<\/p>\n

No Hallmark card; no box of chocolates; no firey diamond; none of that. What we have and what we do for each other is much more meaningful than following conventions brought forth by corporate marketing and sales gimmicks.<\/p>\n

Life is short: show those you love how you love them — every day, not just on a contrived “holiday”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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