Live from Quito - It is Valentine's 2008: ...And know they love you.

Valentine's Day has finally arrived, and lovers everywhere are surprised with wonderful flowers.
I would like to thank everyone who made my task easier, as well as everyone in Mayesh and all the clients for distributing these flowers, which in turn spread love, joy and goodwill to many people throughout the nation...
Love is one of the most important components of our lives, and for everyone in our great industry, I urge you to remember, love and cherish the people close to you, throughout these busy and often stressful times. While success and financial gain are of course necessary pursuits, when one steps back and surveys the big picture, one realizes that love and the well-being of those dear to us is so much more important.
For me, and I hope for you, CSNY's "Teach Your Children" poignantly illustrates the paramount importance of unconditional love:

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.

Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Dedicated to Conrad Dahlson, my father and Desiree Dahlson, my niece.