Operation Secret Valentine
Dearest darlingest most beloved Reader (yes, baby, that’s you),
In response to my piece on Valentine’s Day (Love is my religion! Valentine’s Day is my Christmas!), Bruce Nunnally wrote,
it is important to note that the adoption of paper valentines delivered by post made it possible for valentines to be delivered anonymously. This in turn led to more racy verse. So perhaps you should invite Readers to post Valentines they would LIKE to send to their true love, but dare not?
YES!
Operation Secret Valentine is in effect.
‘Cept it doesn’t have to be secret, unless you want it to be.
If you had the boldness/courage/sheer stupidity/evolutionarily problematic lack of fear, what Valentine are you aching to send?
To who?
What would it say?
You:
You, publicly: Answer on your own blog (text images, whatever). Sign up on the list or link back (here’s a badge) so I know where to look.
–OR–
You, privately: e-mail me your valentine or comment below (enter “anonymous” instead of your name and don’t include your URL).
Me(ish):
(and by “me”, I mean me and Amanda Farough)
- I’ll create an e-book of all the secret(ish) valentines and post it on Cleavage (free, no e-mail addy required).
Are you in?
The badge and the list are below. ’Course you can play, privately too. Feel free to e-mail me your secret valentines at kelly at kellydiels dot com.
Love love love…can’t wait to read your sweet, sizzling, heartfelt, anguished, mundane love notes.
xo,
Kelly
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Operation Secret Valentine. Where you can find all the not-so-secret love notes:
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This, my darling, is genius…
Thinking like a creative blogger. Work those intuitive ways to get traffic and throw in some fun along the road… I love it!
Peace,
Me
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Kelly Diels
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on February 2nd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
@Chase Brumfield, darling and genius all in the same sentence. Be still my heart.
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Ooooo. WHO is Chase? I think he just sent a public Valentine to you.
Thinking just how bold I want to be…just how bold…
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Kelly Diels
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on February 2nd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
@Kelly, always err on the side of bold, or when in doubt, bolder.
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All things for a reason, eh? No wonder I have a sudden secret crush, I have to have someone to send a secret admirer Valentine to.
I feel like I’m back in high school!
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Kelly Diels
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on February 2nd, 2010 at 5:49 pm
@Dave Doolin, of course, this is all for you.
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My love,
You surround yourself with those who tell you of your beauty, your skills, your unique mix of suave and street. How do I sneak a word in? Whisper into your already full ears?
Brush your impossibly unkempt hair from your eyes and peer in?
Vulnerable, soft, warm, scared and oh so human.
You may not be mine…but I am yours. Know this.
Forever,
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Kelly Diels
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on February 2nd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
@anonymous, someone is very lucky.
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I posted one! I couldn’t get the badge to work (I’m still learning this stuff!), but I put two links to your site and the picture on there. Hope that’s OK!
It was the perfect idea to go along with my Happiness Project theme for February: Love!
Thanks for the fun idea!
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[...] still haven’t started or finished the Operation Secret Valentine postinto which I asked Amanda Farough to paste the Valentine badge she [...]
Love before life
Once,
When we floated with snowflakes
And remembered the red of velvet rose petals
And knew love in swirling shapeless color,
I held your heart within me and every look was a kiss
Given not stolen in a glance,
We promised to meet again and finish this dance.
And,
Between this life and the channel of chaos
Into the next, we lost our angelic touch with each other
For the sake of birth and physical formalness.
We held only the faint memory of a time of bliss
And perhaps by twist of fate
When you find me you could relate.
But,
With each change of season
The color of autumn leaves would start to fade
And we would begin to forget that we already knew
Why Adam and Eve were two that could not bear parting.
You touch the winds and they sing back to you,
That it is worth recalling
Why the leaves are falling.
Then,
In some strange and less than exotic place
You felt the presence of me,
And I of you, and you were aware that all your living
Was to get you here and prepared for loving only me.
For it was a whisper that was heart-spoken
Before relative time, work and strife
To guide us back to our love before life.
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I am all yours, my love. Marry me and fuck me forever.
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Amanda
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on February 7th, 2010 at 4:11 am
@Anonymous, Love it.
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Hi Kelly, I hate Valentines day but on my blog I have been informed we are doing Valentines day, love and all the bits in between. We’ll post ours by our resident writer, Ann on Valentines day, you’ll see it the pingbacks.
Sarah
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Kelly – brilliant idea and I’ve loved reading all the links!!! you’ve got wonderful followers!
Alas, once again, I do not have a Valentine…other than my 11 yr old, 2 felonius felines & 1 aging very loyal canine.
So I celebrate for everyone else with all of the amazing secret valentine’s they’ve written!
Namasté
Mitzi
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I have *so* not had time to do this yet, but just heard some lyrics from a “Posies” song and thought of this post:
“One day you’re gonna die. Someone will ask you ‘Who did you love?’…”
Food for thought.
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My love,
Remember when we first fell in love and how magical everything was?
Years have flown past and now a comfortable kind of peace has set in about us.
Is it wrong to not feel the sparks that we felt so long ago?
Or perhaps this is the way things are supposed to be…slowing down with time.
One moment I miss the young man you were and the next I’m so relieved you are the man I know today.
I do miss those passionate times and I’m sure you must as well.
Will we ever be in that place again my love?
Or do we just enjoy where we are now?
I love you.
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[...] February 2010 by Nicki Between Kelly Diels’s Operation Secret Valentine, Momalom’s Love It Up Challenge, a post on How to Write a Love List at Em and Lo’s and [...]
You are so special, I know you think you are to skinny, you’re not. You have a smokin’ bod. Also despite that fact that you are frequently grumpy (or maybe because of it) I want to spend loads of time with you and listen to your funny interesting stories and witty comments. Your smile makes all of my insidey parts melt. I like that you didn’t feel it was necessary to go to university after high school but you still read Kirkegaard (I don’t think that many construction workers do that). I love that you drink bourbon and smoke a pipe and wear cardigans and that you have a love hate relationship with your cat (who is a lot like you by the way). Also I love your dreadlocks. What I’m trying to say is I like all of your idiosyncratic bits and pieces and I love the beautiful whole that is created out of them. I LOVE YOU!
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Hi this is ME (@86blogger) I fell in love with your writing AGAIN.
what Exactly I need to do to prove it?
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