Someone told me a story Friday morning and it left a big impression. In it, a rare bird tells a haughty prince 3 great secrets that wind up changing his perspective for the rest of his life. Saving the story for another time, it was...
Icy water touches my toes as I bury my heels into thick, wet sand. Ancient, soft wind paints shivers down my spine while the paprika sun rises in my eyes, opening them to the endless cycle of earth. Thoughts run back to last night and I am not...
Your moments of coming undone.. When you laugh with vigor, and a little snort manages to escape your sweet little nose, and I smile because yours is contagious, and it's a better world because you warm the universe, and how stinkin' lucky am I to be sitting next to you. When fear...
You capture the deepest part of me wrap it up into your strong arms and squeeze it until we are one and still I wish closer was possible In your eyes I see pretzels of us with no starts or ends in sight and you share our secret with only me that...
At the end of the day, I love you. And everywhere in the middle: you make me laugh and cry and smile and bite my lip and drink espresso and trip over my words and make mistakes and dance and reach for my dreams and learn and linger in bed and long for more and touch your face and feel your...
A thought crept up inside me today. Though it must have hatched from my brain..I felt it through my feet, dancing it's way into my thighs, and up to my stomach, tickling my esophagus, passing through my heart, and overflowing into my smile. It was...
If you let life, it grows you in ways you can't force or manipulate. It seeks light and love, all the while spitting out dark, yet important blessings. It bonds the uncommon in unthinkable ways, and forages enough sparks to last eternities. Generally, we climb steep mountains, for...