Happy Valentimes, everyone. Shout out to @matt_latimer and nearly 11 years of giving each other courage, counsel, and safety. Romantic love is great! Here are some additional kinds of love I am grateful for today: 
@matt_latimer 1. PEDESTRIAN
The love you develop for people after seeing them every day for years. Viz: everyone at @rossyoon and Trister, Ross, the occupants of the office where I worked from ‘05-‘19. The way @DaraKaye just has to run in and share everything bizarre that comes into her inbox.
The love you develop for people after seeing them every day for years. Viz: everyone at @rossyoon and Trister, Ross, the occupants of the office where I worked from ‘05-‘19. The way @DaraKaye just has to run in and share everything bizarre that comes into her inbox.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye The way @allenmattison sighs with what sounds like existential stress every time he’s at the Xerox. The way the late, wonderful Mike Trister walked around with excessive loose change in his pockets: a legendary lawyer who sounded like one of Santa’s reindeer.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye @Allenmattison 2. VIBING
That love-adjacent feeling you feel when you start collaborating with someone whose ideas are just SO COOL, and you are in so much awe and so inspired. Literally all of my clients apply; @KA_Nicholas is the most recent complete proposal, so she gets the shout-out.
That love-adjacent feeling you feel when you start collaborating with someone whose ideas are just SO COOL, and you are in so much awe and so inspired. Literally all of my clients apply; @KA_Nicholas is the most recent complete proposal, so she gets the shout-out.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye @Allenmattison @KA_Nicholas 3. SOMEONE WHO MORE OR LESS IMPULSIVELY DECIDED TO COFOUND A BUSINESS WITH YOU BASED ON A MUTUAL GUT FEELING
@kentdwolf, I will love you the rest of my life.
@kentdwolf, I will love you the rest of my life.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye @Allenmattison @KA_Nicholas @kentdwolf 4. DELIGHT
The way new people (and new facets of people!) just keep emerging and emerging. How surprising it all is. How unpredictable. How silly.
The way new people (and new facets of people!) just keep emerging and emerging. How surprising it all is. How unpredictable. How silly.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye @Allenmattison @KA_Nicholas @kentdwolf 5. @benjaminwittes
Sorry to be weird, Ben, but Ben is kind of the benevolent nexus of the universe in DC, and the distinct professional gratitude so many of us feel for him has featured in a surprising number of my lunchtime conversations this month!
Sorry to be weird, Ben, but Ben is kind of the benevolent nexus of the universe in DC, and the distinct professional gratitude so many of us feel for him has featured in a surprising number of my lunchtime conversations this month!
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye @Allenmattison @KA_Nicholas @kentdwolf @benjaminwittes 6. LAWN ORNAMENT RELATED
The look on @petridishes’ face while she watched a giant top-hatted turkey inflate in front of her house last November. Total glee in the face of how lavishly odd it is to live on this mortal plane.
The look on @petridishes’ face while she watched a giant top-hatted turkey inflate in front of her house last November. Total glee in the face of how lavishly odd it is to live on this mortal plane.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye @Allenmattison @KA_Nicholas @kentdwolf @benjaminwittes @petridishes 7. MAGICAL TALISMANS @RitaJKing gave the gorgeous amphora necklace to me; it’s a modified version of one she sells for Treasure of the Sirens, her jewelry line. @megleder handed me a gift bag, giggling, on Wednesday, and it contained A MOIRA PRAYER CANDLE. 😱
