Thai commercial on giving

Sure, it's about giving. But it covers a lot of other topics too. To say more would be a spoiler. A touching commercial (with English subtitles) from a Thai telecomm conglomerate.

Too late for Valentine's Day

Sifting through 12 days of newspaper links after coming home from Thailand, I found an interesting article on gift giving in a relationship. When Love Outgrows Gifts explains that gifts, defined as "an offering where you incur a cost but receive no direct or immediate benefit," play an important part in relationships but they do not have to be material gifts. You may find some useful information there if you're teaching about relationships of love languages.

"Ike and Mae Mosher, who have been married for 70 years, never established much of a traditional gift-giving ritual because they stretched their finances early in their relationship to support relatives."

Mary F. Calvert for The New York Times