In anticipation of Valentine’s Day

I’m not really sure I can nail down a starting point for this post. But I just received an e-mail, reminding me that a year ago one of my OVCA buddies died. She was one of those online support comrades, another one I never met in real life and another one who died too soon. This online support thing is a bit strange to me, because the wellbeing of a bunch of people I have never met means so much to me. It’s a good thing, it just continues to surprise me with its intensity.

There has been a lot of death and grief in my life over the last couple of years and there is not much I can do about those circumstances except try to maintain some sort of point of view that allows me to squeeze out some smidgen of something positive. Often, I fail miserably at this goal. But one thing that is important to me is that we remember the people we have lost.
So, today, I thought I should do something to remember Heather MacAllister. This is a snippet from what I wrote a year ago.

“Heather was a Fat/Social Justice Activist and the founder of the Fat Bottom Revue, a burlesque troupe full of really hot fat grrrls.

The thing Heather wanted to say, that message she wanted to leave us with, is that we should love our bodies, just like they are and appreciate all they do for us, and that we should love each other.”

How about we all try that? How about that for a post-Valentine’s Day idea?

So, in anticipation of Valentine’s Day, how about we all do like she says and try to, you know, love one another or at least be more kind to each other. What could it hurt?