271. 60 words

The way you spoke to me over lunch made me feel so understood. Really, the entire way you went about that issue with me made me feel like you knew how to take care of me on this very particular way that I cannot exactly articulate, but deeply need. I think that is why our discussing later this evening was jarring. I am sorry for calling you weird or making you feel crazy. I don’t think you’re either. It hurts my heart when we are like that with one another.

I love you. If we were only allowed to say 60 words a day, I’d say “I love you” to you 20 times. If you didn’t reply, I’d know you’d used all your words for the day, and I’d stay on the phone until the clock rolled over to midnight, waiting for the next days allotment of words, just listening to you breathe.

262. Home movies

Hey Baby. I want you to know that I know that you are my soul mate…AND I want to show you the proof. Here’s me, age 4, doing the bucking bronco. We are threads in the same tapestry, you and I. I love to love to love you.

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261. Burning


I have told you before that you put me in touch with the better part of my heart—-the sweetest part. I’ve told you how much more joy I find in life when I act from that part of myself.

Another thing I’ve realized recently is that you are perhaps the only person in my life who has ever needed me to be strong. I don’t know if you can imagine what it feels like to be needed for the first time, since you’ve had so many people in your life who need you for so long…but I think you can understand what I mean, at least on some intellectual level, that it means a lot to me to get to step up.

I used to walk through bonfire after bonfire of my hopes and dreams, coming out alive and unscathed on the other side of each one. I figured I was fire proof. Then, I met you and you set me on fire. Inside and out. My blood burns for you. My skin burns for you. My soul burns for you. Everything burns and burns and burns for you.

Everything before you made me strong, but you made me sweet. Now, I’m even stronger. Let me show you. Let me be an asset to something greater than myself.