I just got back from visiting with a long-time e-mail friend (in August, it will be 12 years), whom I've only met face-to-face once... and that was 9 years ago - this time around, he was in Miami for about 36 hours for a work-related conference, and we decided to get together for breakfast at his hotel. What used to be a daily correspondence has become spotty the last few years, and I take full responsibility - I don't seem to be doing so well in the time management department lately...
Anyway... it was sweet, exciting and ultimately comfortable, as we caught up on kids, spouses and life in general - we only had a two-hour window of opportunity, which wasn't enough time... but it was...
There's a story here - suffice it to say it has a happy ending (and no one was harmed in the unfolding... :-)
BOOK: Kindred Spirits: Relationships That Spark the Soul by Dianne Hicks Morrow
POEM: by Jane Gentry - On a Perfect Day
... I eat an artichoke in front
POEM: by Jane Gentry - On a Perfect Day
... I eat an artichoke in front
of the Charles Street Laundromat
and watch the clouds bloom
into white flowers out of
the building across the way.
The bright air moves on my face
like the touch of someone who loves me.
Far overhead a dart-shaped plane softens
through membranes of vacancy. A ship,
riding the bright glissade of the Hudson, slips
past the end of the street. Colette's vagabond
says the sun belongs to the lizard
that warms in its light. I own these moments
when my skin like a drumhead stretches on the frame
of my bones, then swells, a bellows filled
with sacred breath seared by this flame,
this happiness.
QUOTE: "There are three ingredients to the good life: learning, earning, and yearning." ~ Christopher Morley
QUOTE: "There are three ingredients to the good life: learning, earning, and yearning." ~ Christopher Morley
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