Every week, Suleika Jaouad, creator of The Isolation Journal newsletter “for people seeking to transform life’s interruptions into creative grist”, gives a prompt for readers to think or write about. This surprising prompt about love hit home.
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We’d never thought what a Valentine heart could mean beyond a general feeling and expression of romantic love until we read these words by the great Anne Herbert…
Read MoreLove is Telepathic
Walking along the Lower East Side of Manhattan, we looked down and found this amazing message pasted onto the curb…
Read MoreValentine’s Day Practice (Jenny Holzer + Yoko Ono)
We’re thinking alternative ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day…
Read More70 improvised valentines later — still in love
Bill and Julie got married on Valentine’s Day in 1943, 70 years ago today. He was a GI who had managed to wangle a weekend pass to marry his childhood sweetheart. From the get-go,their marriage was an improv. “We didn’t have a minyan, the minimum of ten people required for a Jewish wedding,” Julie recalls.…
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