i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

by e.e. cummings (ma boo)

Karma Repair Kit

Karma Repair Kit:
Items 1-4
by Richard Brautigan

1. Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4.

About today

If I could go back to three years ago today, I can't say I would have done it any differently. I would have washed my hair, applied my lipstick and adorned my neck with my mother's pearls all over again.

There are plenty of things I would have done differently, but being there - in that room, with you, when neither of us could find the right words to say - isn't likely one of them. I can say this because at that moment, my heart was actually - for once - completely open and vulnerable and in the most hopeful of places - and there is nothing more beautiful than that.

If there's one thing I miss, it's that foolish, hopeless optimism that led me to that very place, where love is not yet acquainted with the harshness of reality and the endless imperfections of humanness.