You kiss me into life

I don’t celebrate today in any special way like most of you: instead I just love all the people all the time. And yet the heart symbol will never grow old.

And nobody does hearts quite like Niki de Saint Phalle. Her Tarot Garden, Il giardino dei tarocchi, in immediate vicinity tends to see much of me often.

Better than carving into trees: build your own.

If you ask me: him, often.

If you ask him: me, often.

And yet the heart tree is blossoming.

I’ve got much love for my people…

…and bestia!

Mom, dad, sis.

Uncle M

Uncle R

This world and everybody in it. (Even him.)

Amore!

The end?

Nah, as I loved saying when I was little and there was a cartoon on TV and I wasn’t sure if those were opening or closing credits, and then I exclaimed happily: “It’s only just begun!”

Photo: © signature mmm

As for Valentine’s Day, Slovenian group with a very particular vocal and the name sometimes fitting for today, “Patetico”, says in one of their songs: “Every day is Valentine’s Day.”

But here is another of their songs which I love very much and have translated into English on purpose.

Vedno, ko sem s tabo / Every time I’m with you

by Patetico

Every time I’m with you
I’m like a small child.
I close myself inside your arms
like the earth
that gets moulded into clay.
You smooth me into woman
you kiss me into life
you place me into a glass case
and time is driving by.

You said: stay,
stay here by my side
because your sadness
is fed with my happiness.
But I threw myself into you
like into an abyss
hoping that down there
someone loves me.

What else can I do
woven out of threads
which the destiny
has spun around
your being?
I count on the sun
which always shines anyway
so when you turn around
it just uncovers you again.

Translated by Manja Maksimovič 

And only now I see that this is actually an inspired cover of a song performed by Croatian singer of Dalmatia and Split, Oliver Dragojević. Here is how he does it. I wish you all lots of love on a daily basis.