Love Hurts
Valentine's special edition: an unruly meeting of red and pink
Beloved reader:
I wanted to tell you a story about Valentine’s day. A story that at first I thought should begin with images of the mathematically cardioid leaves of the sacred fig worshiped in the Indus Valley Civilization, and from there, to a heart-shaped icon on silver coins from the ancient Greek city state of Cyrene that d…



