May 20th

Had a peach smoothie today.

Got Mountainman crying like old hounds in the hills in the background.

Wind howled so hard at the waterfront, sand blew into the stroller.

Zoe learned a somersault.

The way I see it, there ain't any boxes of love left to open for anybody but my one love. But if I should never open another, even for him, I shall be content having received the treasure of getting to go with him once.

And also, if when he's an old man, he finds an old postcard and decides to send it my way to reconnect, I will look up his nursing home, and go to him and find him in his wheel-chair and I will plant a kiss on his forehead, and say: "My dearest darling, I've loved you always." And even if it's just that moment, at the very end, I know I will have experienced a life with a truly rich love.

Call it cheesy. But don't you know cheese is amazing, and without it we wouldn't have pizza? I'm done apologizing for the best thing ever.

Regarding "Always"

I believe in a simple life for us. One where we break bread together each day in thanks, and take walks when the light is nice. Maybe tend a garden in our old age, or if we get tired read a book on an old quilt.. I know beyond all shadows,  that I choose you. I only hope when the time seems right, you can choose me too.

There has surely been a door...

...and I have surely passed through it.
I am no longer concerned with being right,
I am only concerned with loving right.
Thanks to the Maker for giving us hearts,
and Thanks to Him who fills them.

tomorrow we shall be reunited

...minus the chicken.

Proclaimation

I've recently acquired a new tool.

The nicest old lady in a Victorian House handed it to me with a smile of kindess. It is such a gift, one waited and searched for, finally come, in the most perfect manner, as all I had hoped for.

I hope to never abuse it, but gild it skillfully, for many good purposes, pulling tight in the the tug-of-war for good and beauty and usefulness.

As ceremony, let this post be a marker, as the day I was joined by Miss Oliver, my new macbook. May our relationship be prosperous and together may we make much good art and see many dreams of creating realized.