Love Day ❤️ Giveaway!

Five different prizes in celebration of Valentine's Day and LOVE

Happy Valentine’s Day, ❤️ Palentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day, Brointine’s Day, or whatever day you celebrate if you’re into LOVE and showing love. In honor of LOVE, an emotion the world certainly needs more of, I’m offering a gift giveaway for you, with five unique books to pick from. Details below!

The giveaway choices, all created by my lover, Agah Bahari

Love is a favorite thing of mine and I even have an Emily Dickinson poem about love tattooed in an infinite circle around my torso.

The poem reads:

Love—is anterior to Life
Posterior—to Death
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Breath.

It’s always been one of my favorite poems since I first encountered it as a child.

So, I’m highlighting these works in celebration of my partner for the past nine-plus years, Agah Bahari. He’s a musician, sound designer, and Farsi translator, but he also makes books for fun sometimes. I shared a photo of us in my last transmission to you.

How to Enter the Giveaway

Open to all subscribers. Enter to win one of Agah’s books by leaving a comment on this post with the title of the book you’d like to win.

Book choices are described below, including two coloring books, a poetry and art book, a documentary street photobook, and a philosophy book.

Also, if you think one of the books below would appeal to a friend, please share this post with them so they can enter to win. I may pick a few winners, depending on the books folks select.

Paid subscribers, my Vipers 🐍 and Infinity Dolphins 🐬, get double entries and can pick two books instead of one. So, if you’re a paid subscriber, please comment with your top two titles.

*All books will be delivered to winners in paperback, except for if you pick Toronto in Transit, which is out of print, so you’ll receive an eBook version.

You will be notified by email if you’ve won.

The Book Prize Options

1. Nuclear Explosions Coloring Book by Agah Bahari (This is a gray-scale coloring book for those of you who are into that niche.)

   

   Nuclear Explosions Coloring Book cover and sample spread

2. Cyborgs Coloring Book by Agah Bahari

   

   Cyborgs Coloring Book and sample page

3. Toronto in Transit, by a photobook Agah Bahari

   Toronto in Transit is a collection of black and white street photography taken on the streets of Toronto and in the Toronto TTC during the 2010s of everyday people, street construction, and main public transportation routes.

   (And if you recognize the guy on the left, yes, that is Curt Jaimungal long before he became a famous YouTuber.)

   

   Toronto in Transit cover and sample page spread

4. Wisdom of Silence, by Agah Bahari, featuring the SUMI art of Takamoto Mamiko, Foreword by Chris Niebauer, Ph.D.

   This book is a collection of poetry paired with color photos of Japanese SUMI art.

   

   Wisdom of Silence cover and spread

5. Three Books of the Experience: Seeing the Cage from the Outside, by Agah Bahari

   

   Three Books of the Experience cover and sample pages

   This is a philosophy book with illustrations centering on three ideas:

   1. AGOLOGY

   2. Four Versions of an Individual

   3. Man, Tool, and Reason

   The book is the companion book to the music album by Agah Bahari called Man, Tool, and Reason.

So, happy book picking and happy Valentine’s Day!

And if you’re feeling lonely or grumpy, go watch Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum or Down for Love and cheer up! You can’t possibly stay sad while watching those shows (I hope).

Sending much love to you!

Now You

Which book appeals to you?

Any fun Valentine’s Day plans?

For the lonely hearts out there, what is something that cheers you up when you’re feeling down about love?