Nancy Gibbs Essay on Valentine's day

[laura_seabrook]

SBS in Australia show the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Anyway today's edition had an essay by Nancy Gibbs on Valentine's day,. I thought she was spot on, but if you missed it you can hear it again on their essays page, or by direct link to an MP3.

In particular I liked these two points:

"...my main frustration is that Valentine's day only pretends to celebrate what we like about love while more often undermining it..."

"...love should fizz without champagne, should grow in hard soil. The minute its expression feels like a duty, it's lost its bearings."