Love is not merely celebrated one day each year. Love is on a continuum, though, Valentine's Day, for many retail merchants, is always a hallmark business day. Certainly Hallmark Cards must agree. Throughout the entire world, every day, love is celebrated within our hearts, in many different ways of expression. Throughout all history, with pen and portrait, from all generations have expressed love.
Love is unto itself a higher law.
Whatever the culture, whenever the era, love has always reigned supreme in all people's hearts. The poet, play-right, philosopher and painter each by their own art and life's experiences remind us through their gifts and abilities that love and loving is the very essence of life. Our modern day seems to need a different kind of love. Saint Valentine, a Roman martyr priest in c.270, became popularly the patron saint of lovers and those unhappily in love. Thankfully though, we have set aside a day to focus our attention on love, loving and lovers.