First Day

Fond of you God is.
You thrill to hear the "Hello".
God charts your voyage.

Happy Picture

There is a challenge over at Gretchen's Happiness Project to choose "8 Auspicious Symbols of Happiness". I chose 9 because it makes a symmetrical collage :)

Love Letter No 57 - Wildfire Love

Dear A,
Fire inside is burning out of control! You lit it, fanned it, fed it. Now it's loose. Wildfire, burning in my chest, scorching my guts, searing my heart. It's inescapable when flaming up spontaneously from the inside.

Douse me with water, it vaporizes. Try a chemical drop, but that's no help. The sting of red burn continues, then fried nerves go numb as love's wildfire uses up the fuel of my angst.

It wasn't a ring of fire to fall into, it was the flames that burst forth that spread a ring around me making me unapproachable. Only the love you bring enters this circle of fiery heat.

With deep and tender affection,

L

PS: "Many waters cannot quench love" ~ Solomon
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to bless a cancer patient

A disease may require special attention, may impact the circles we move in and through, never does disease define the person,
it says nothing of longings in the heart, of the distant hopes or near objectives of an individual's plans.

May cancer bless the urgency of being in the moment, without dominating the conversation, or changing the purpose of each day. May life's abundance be marked by thoughts, words and deeds that contribute beyond and in spite of the context of an MRI, CT scan, PET scan, blood marker or spinal tap. May invisible faith, unsee-able hope and irresistible love overshadow the physical outside of pain, diagnostics and treatment.

To be in the moment of every experience brings its own victory, and may that victory channel energy of healing melded in physiology and sparked by psychological immunity.

May you know the strength of friendship's love through prayers, calls, visits and cards. May positivity dwell deep within, subjugating bad cells to the body's remarkable immuno-response. May cause discovered bring cure conclusive and complete.

And should healing involve death, the door that leads to life beyond mortal bonds, may the confidence of life's enduring cycle nurture peace within. May loved ones share a held hand and hug as the soul seeks rest and the embrace of love eternal is enjoined.

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It seems unfair that any would be called to an untimely early stage of life death, but death is a bridge we all walk across eventually.

Love Letter No 56 - Tossed Love

Dear L,
Never, ever, ever did I think it would be me, and
you, and a hearts tossed. But that is precisely
the situation. I understand too well now, this was to
be expected, put in an impossible milieu,
tossing a heart aside, like infatuated driftwood
on love's shore, is the final option.

It seems a hurt forever. It is on top
of everything that has piled up in life.
Yet, cynicism has no reward, inspiration says
give 100% when it comes to love.
Show the world you want love, a special love,
one that creates the willing heart and throws in
completely; a love that will not walk away when storm
clouds brew.

Know this, I miss you tragically, it hurts
inside. Oh, if I could fix it, I would.
I know I will do all in my power to
make it work should love happen to any degree
that compares with this painful past. It is
burned deep into the conscious.
Love, so precious, and
forever love whispering
to an aching heart.
Even tossed, love's dreams still live.

Written through the tears,
With deep and tender affection,

L
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to bless intimation

As sand shifts in surf
shadows move with sun's
intimation of day's progression,
may the sands beneath your feet
always speak the truth change brings.
May subtle textured support
and skillful adjustments
constantly maintain balance.

May intimation received and offered bring personal
treasure to life through moments of reason,
understanding, spiritual enrichment. May the friendship
intimation nurtures through a wink, nod, or outstretched arm
gather strength in the body language of gentle warmth.

May the intimation of language be honest and graceful, becoming
a transposition of words carrying their emotion
with light confidence knowing that
whether fierce or subdued, whispered or screamed,
the arriving has the blessed result intended.

Let intimation yield just fruit to bless
and curse not all those that receive.
And may life's yearnings respond to intimation
through observing the constancy in nature,
witnessing the embrace of each day's change.


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Photo 'i-appropriated' from Jack.
Follow the link on the picture to see more of Jack's great photography; visit her web at "Slightly off center" .

edgy pain

(for Noelle)

now? well, ache is a good term -
still aching inside,
why? distance, absence, hurts, loneliness,
facing up to these, and the aching for
what can't be faced up to.
yet, moments of solace transpire,
last night i opened the package that
held the book, your book, and then
i turned the light out, walked over
and lay down on the bed in near total
darkness, i held the book and all the words
to my chest, in the dark
wondering what dreams within,
what exorcisms might await,
what wisdom wants to speak,
what tears to be shared,
what shame to expose,
what hurts to let go,
i let it flow over me and through into
my heart, enfolded in darkness, only the nightlight
of the alarm clock face nearby in an otherwise blackened room
and those words clutched tightly to me
then turning on the lamp,
i began to read...

Love Letter No 55 - Sick Love

*Dear A,
This is the season when the stomach churns,
the limbs ache, the head is feverish, and
the heart is sore. This sickness is not viral, it is
not pandemic or bacterial, it is not
catching or infectious.
The source is within every person. Only in
extreme cases does it become active. Normal
interaction is prescribed. But when unavailable
the symptoms are immediate in addition to both
chronic and acute. It is 'sick love'.
Some may diagnose love sick, but I prefer that former
name, for when you are in it sick modifies the love, not the
opposite. Sick is the feeling of anguish controlling all
movement, and weighing each moment. Sick tirelessly
attacks, yet love remains. And that is why, sick is
the temporary portion and love the permanent condition.
For this, all health care, no matter the source, can only
wait for love's healing.

With deep and tender affection,

L
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to bless expectations

"permission requested to take a step back"
"Now? you want to step back now?"
"permission requested to take a step back, now please"
"Don't you want to move forward? Isn't that the direction required? Why the step back?"
"Expectations"
"Expectations?"
"Yes, expectations are overwhelming at the moment, must step back."

And so the internal struggle continues, on the heels of expectation is the arrival of wants and wishes, meeting these every time from every source brings the need for acceptance and pleasing others into direct conflict with internal safety.

And yet, we live on the edge, with expectations, so, may expectations be blessed with freedom, hope, perpetual choice and the insight of self preservation.

Love Letter No 54 - Moving Love

Dear D,
I can only share from me, what I hear, see, touch, feel, experiences abound. I have fell silent to all, yet within the shouting will not cease. LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! I was so far way and now so far beyond all previous imaginations.
And still you are with me.

Moving love has catapulted the heart through space and time. The laughter, the energy, the wholeness of it all gives life. The wind blows where it will, we are move,
and then, you move me again.

With deep and tender affection,

L
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in all things, arise

wash me with the sea
rinse me with the river
heal me with springs
season me with rains
strengthen me with sun rays
enrich me with winds
temper me with icy snow
awaken me with mountain brooks
invigorate me with breezy air
this world, life giving and enhancing
challenging me, in all things,
arise

"deep within there is a feast,
and there is no tomorrow"
~Brodie

to bless a kiss

When connection, purpose, action
merge upon primal miracle,
human fondness reveals glorious
expression through the
touch of lips, may moments
of blessing be perpetuated
within your neural system, betraying
the want in exchange for deep
pure satisfaction of proviso.

The master musician passes
onus to virtuoso,
mother to fledgling,
father to child,
sage to elder,
dearest friend to dearest friend,
the kiss of childhood and youth,
the family reunion kisses for cousins -
aunts - uncles - grandparents - parents -
nieces - nephews - brothers - sisters -
- anyone sucked into the eye of that loving
hurricane of warmth.
All returning on the two way path
of human kindness.

For sickness, wealth, education, health, marriage,
a night's rest, birth, growth of all sorts,
for the passion of life shared in love,
there is the kiss.

May the blessing of a kiss
adorn each daybreak and twilight,
every noon and midnight of life;
transfixed moments of connection
for all the joy received and given.

May final kisses when spirit lingers,
as "last breath out" yields peace,
spring forth with tender loving care.
May blessing follow you to final
kiss's appointment, bringing the discovery
that love's infinite kiss is a
welcoming homecoming.

conversation

everything happened
images, words, conversation
tangle, sway, elation
everything happened
mind emotion invested
total attention arrested
life exchange congested
everything happened
dancing late in the night
agreement in minds just right
fears and concerns took flight
mutually loving the sight
everything happened
again again again