Friday, February 14th, 2014

Valentine’s Day Present: Love, Ongoing
(Plus five Valentine’s Day mixtapes from the CLD archives!)



My plans to zip over to my wife’s workplace with flowers and lunch for a Valentine’s Day surprise were overtaken by a double snow day this year, turning what might have been a romantic moment into a promise unfulfilled, leaving me without a single heart to offer save my own.

Happily, true love doesn’t fade so fast, nor does it depend on any particular trinket. Love is in every moment, if you know where to look, and choose to embrace it, and be grateful.

Every morning as I leave for work, I kiss my wife, and speak love into her day before she wakes. Every night, in the darkness, I whisper my love to her as she sleeps warm beside me. Every day I thank the universe that after over half a lifetime together, there’s still beauty and love in my life.

In her honor, then, and yours: a set of coverfolk love songs released in the last year or two, followed by links back to five mixtapes and features from our Valentine’s Days past. For love is in all ways complicated, always forever and ever new. May you find comfort and hope here, and everywhere, on this most romantic of days, and every day that follows.

Valentine’s Day Present [download here!]

Valentine’s Days Past

Category: Holiday Coverfolk, Mixtapes 3 comments »

3 Responses to “Valentine’s Day Present: Love, Ongoing
(Plus five Valentine’s Day mixtapes from the CLD archives!)”

  1. Doug Balmain
    February 17th, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    “Happily, true love doesn’t fade so fast, nor does it depend on any particular trinket.” True words, loved the post…thanks for the tunes!
  2. zeki ali
    February 20th, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Thanks…these are tasty treats!
  3. Maddin
    March 18th, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Hi there. “The Book of Love” is originally by Peter Gabriel ! But the cover version by Magnetic Fields is great.

    [no it isn’t, though he covered it recently – boyhowdy]

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