Happy Valentine's Day!
There's just something about a bunch of friends getting together to sing that I love love love. After our wedding, friends and family crammed into the tiny living room of our rental duplex and we sang Nanci Griffith songs together. My first niece was just a baby crawling around after our cat.
Now that niece is a teenager in her first "relationship," and Jörg and I haven't sung together in years.
Love, old and new and in-between. This video gave me that old nostalgic-melancholy-but-warm feeling:
There's just something about a bunch of friends getting together to sing that I love love love. After our wedding, friends and family crammed into the tiny living room of our rental duplex and we sang Nanci Griffith songs together. My first niece was just a baby crawling around after our cat.
Now that niece is a teenager in her first "relationship," and Jörg and I haven't sung together in years.
Love, old and new and in-between. This video gave me that old nostalgic-melancholy-but-warm feeling:
Yours Truly Presents: The Morning Benders "Excuses" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
And for those who like their love uncomplicated, I give you a note from Annika I found in Frankie's bed a few months ago:
Happy Valentine's Day! Thanks for sharing that sweet note. I found a note from my youngest once, defending her older sister by saying, "What (her sister) wants, (her sister) gets." She sounds like she's the enforcer, doesn't she? I also found a note once that she'd written for the cat. (She's tried to teach our cat to read -- she must think it's been working...)
Happy Chinese New Year, too! I hope the Year of the Tiger is a ferociously good one for your family.
Posted by: Tabatha | February 14, 2010 at 04:27 PM
That note is TOO sweet!
Posted by: Kyla | February 14, 2010 at 06:04 PM
What a sweet note!
Posted by: Amelie | February 15, 2010 at 03:35 AM
Moreena,
That note is awesome! I'm always amazed at how Riley and Shelby can fight, then be hugging the next minute. I hope they can always resolve their issues with each other that quickly and remain close friends even into adulthood. We need to chat again on FB. I'll look for you on there today.
Posted by: Jenn | February 15, 2010 at 08:11 AM
people making music together is a wonderful kind of love.
anni's note to frankie -- hoo, boy, that is sister love!
Posted by: kathy a. | February 15, 2010 at 01:34 PM
The note is beautiful. And that you found it in her bed somehow makes it more touching (like she went to sleep clutching it or something). Thanks for the reminder of simple love.
Posted by: Courtney | February 16, 2010 at 04:39 PM
I want a sister!
Posted by: Jennif | February 16, 2010 at 05:43 PM
LOVE the song. Dadadadada da da da~ thanks for making my day!
Posted by: danielle | February 22, 2010 at 05:02 AM
I loves this so much! Ah, sisters! xxxxoooo
Posted by: Jozet at Halushki | March 01, 2010 at 06:40 PM
I suddenly want to hug my sisters. Thanks for that. :) PS, felt oddly caught off guard (and quite old) when I noticed the shadow of a URL on the back of that note...! Amazing!
Posted by: Elizabeth | March 05, 2010 at 06:08 AM